HMS Viper

HMS Viper

Fifteen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS "Viper", or HMS "Vipere", after the members of the Viperidae family:

*HMS|Viper|1746|6 was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1746. She was converted into a fireship in 1755 and renamed HMS "Lightning". She was sold in 1762.
*HMS|Viper|1756|6 was a 10-gun sloop launched in 1756 and captured by the French in 1762.
*HMS|Viper|1762|6 was a 12-gun cutter dating from 1762. She was wrecked in 1780.
*HMS "Viper" was a 20-gun cutter purchased in 1780 as HMS|Greyhound|1780|6. She was renamed HMS "Viper" and rearmed to 12 guns in 1781, and was listed until 1803.
*HMS|Viper|1777|6 was a 10-gun cutter purchased and commissioned in 1777. She foundered in 1779.
*HMS|Viper|1779|6 was an 8-gun galley purchased in 1779 and listed until 1785.
*HMS|Vipere|1793|6 was a 4-gun cutter, formerly a French privateer. She was captured in 1793, but was wrecked later that year.
*HMS|Vipere|1794|6 was a 16-gun brig-sloop formerly a French privateer. She was captured in 1794, but foundered in 1797.
*HMS|Viper|1797|6 was a 14-gun cutter purchased in 1797 and sold in 1809.
*HMS|Viper|1809|6 was an 8-gun cutter launched in 1809 as the civilian vessel "Niger". She was purchased that same year and sold in 1814.
*HMS|Viper|1810|6 was a 10-gun gun-brig purchased in 1810. She was possibly renamed HMS "Mohawk" later that year, and is not present on the navy list of 1811.
*HMS|Viper|1831|6 was a 6-gun schooner launched in 1831 and broken up in 1851.
*HMS|Viper|1854|6 was was an "Arrow"-class wooden-hulled screw gunvessel launched in 1854 and sold in 1862.
*HMS|Viper|1865|6 was an iron armoured gunvessel launched in 1865. She was used for harbour service from 1890, as a tank vessel from 1901 and was sold in 1908.
*HMS|Viper|1899|6 was a "Viper" class destroyer launched in 1899 and wrecked in 1901.


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