Three ships of the Royal Navy have been named Shamrock, after the plant:
- HMS Shamrock (1808), a schooner built at Bermuda in 1808 and wrecked in 1811. She was the name-ship of her class of 10-gun schooners.
- HMS Shamrock (1812), an unrated brig-sloop transferred to HM Revenue Service in 1833 and sold in 1867.[1]
- HMS Shamrock (1918), an S-class destroyer built in Sunderland, launched 1918 and scrapped in 1936.[2]
Citations
edit- ^ Winfield (2008), pp. 346-47.
- ^ Sunderland in the Great War, By Clive Dunn, Gillian Dunn, page 85
References
edit- Winfield, Rif (2008). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-246-7.
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