HMS Grenada

Four ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Grenada (or Granada), after the island of Grenada:

  • HMS Grenada (1693) (or Granada) was a 12-gun bomb vessel of 279 tons (bm) launched at Rotherhithe on 26 June 1693. She was under the command of Captain Thomas Willshaw and participating in a bombardment of Le Havre on 16 July 1694 when a shell fired from the town exploded on her, "blowing her to pieces".[1]
  • HMS Grenada (1804) was the French privateer schooner Harmonie, launched in 1800 and captured in 1803 that the inhabitants of Grenada donated to the Royal Navy in 1804; at the end of 1810 she was sold for breaking up.
  • HMS Grenada (1807) was the French 16-gun privateer Iéna, which HMS Cruizer captured in the North Sea in 1807.[2] The Royal Navy took her into service but it is not clear that she was ever commissioned; she was last listed in 1814.

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Citations

  1. Hepper (1994), p17.
  2. "No. 15990". The London Gazette. 10 January 1807. pp. 34–35.

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