- HMS Badger
Eight ships and one shore establishment of the
Royal Navy have borne the name HMS "Badger", after theEurasian Badger :
Ships
* was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1745 and lost in 1762.
* was a 14-gunbrig , purchased from civilian service in 1776, where she had been named "Pitt". She was condemned in 1777.
* was a brig purchased in 1777 and sold in 1784.
* was a 3-gun gunvessel, formerly a Dutch hoy, purchased in 1794 and sold in 1804.
* was 10-gun "Cherokee" classbrig-sloop launched in 1808. She was used as a mooring vessel from 1835, was beached in 1860 and broken up in 1864.
* was a wood screw gunboat launched in 1854. She was to have been named HMS "Ranger", but was renamed prior to her launch. She was broken up in 1864.
* was an "Ant" class iron screw gunboat launched in 1872 and sold in 1908.
* was an "Acheron" classtorpedo boat destroyer launched in 1911 and sold in 1921.
Shore Establishment
* HMS "Badger" was commissioned in 1939 as the headquarters of theFlag Officer In Charge,Harwich . The site was decommissioned in 1946, but the facility remained an emergency port control until 1992.
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