HMS Bermuda was a 14-gun brig-sloop built in Bermuda,[1] which was purchased and commissioned by the Royal Navy in 1795, the first Royal Navy ship of her name. She disappeared in September 1796 in the Gulf of Florida.
| History | |
|---|---|
 Great Britain | |
| Name | HMS Bermuda |
| Namesake | British colony of Bermuda |
| Launched | 1795 |
| Commissioned | 1795 |
| Fate | Disappeared in September 1796 in the Gulf of Florida |
| General characteristics | |
| Armament | 14 guns |
The Royal Kalendar or, Complete and Correct Annual Register for England, Scotland, Ireland, and America. For the Year 1797 List of Kings Ships now in Commission[2] records her as 38 Bermuda, T. Maxtone.
References
edit- ^ Members’ Ships: Royal Navy: A to B: HMS Bermuda (C52), Russian Convoy Club of New Zealand: Veterans of the Arctic Convoys 1941 - 1945 website
- ^ Royal Kalendar or, Complete and Correct Annual Register for England, Scotland, Ireland, and America. For the Year 1797, Page 109: List of Kings Ships now in Commission. Printed for J. Debrett, opposite Burlington House, Piccadilly, London: G. G. and J. Robinson, S. Bladon, and G. & T. Wilkie, in Paternoster-Row; B. Law and Son, in Ave-Maria Lane; J. Curtis, on Ludgate-hill; W. March, in Ludgate-Street; Cadell and Davies, in the Strand; W. Richardson, at the Royal Exchange; H. W. Byfield & Co. and J. Cooper, and Son, Charing-Cross; T. Wills, in Stationers Court; and L. B. Seeley, Paternoster Row
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