- HMS Buzzard
Four
Royal Navy ships and two bases have been named HMS "Buzzard" after the bird of the same name:hips
*The first "Buzzard" was originally a French vessel named "Lutine" captured in the
Leeward Islands in 1806 and renamed HMS "Hawke". She was renamed "Buzzard" in 1813 and sold in 1815.
*The second "Buzzard" was a 237-tonCherokee class brigantine , built in Portsmouth, which spent most of her career engaged in patrols against the Atlantic slave trade;James Covey , who played a key role in the Amistad court case, was a sailor on board this vessel. A picture of this ship capturing the slaver "Formidable" on17 December 1834 , byWilliam John Huggins , is in theNational Maritime Museum . 707 slaves were rescued but only around 400 survived. The vessel was sold in 1843.
*The third "Buzzard" was a wooden paddle sloop, launched in 1849 and commissioned on7 May 1852 . It was broken up in 1883.
*The fourth "Buzzard" was a "Nymphe"-class composite screw sloop launched in 1887, renamed HMS "President" in 1911 and sold in 1921.hore Bases
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RAF Lympne ,Kent hosted HMS "Buzzard" from 1937 to 1940. [cite web|url=http://www.historicaircraftcollection.ltd.uk/nimrod/|title=Historic Aircraft Collection website|accessdate=2008-08-30]
*Later during theSecond World War , HMS "Buzzard" was the name of a naval air station inPort Royal, Jamaica .References
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External Links
* [http://www.cronab.demon.co.uk/B2.HTM Sailing ships of the Royal Navy] for information about the 1813 and 1834 "Buzzards"
* [http://www.nmm.ac.uk/searchbin/searchs.pl?exhibit=it0562b&axis=1165795200&flash=&dev= Huggins' picture of the "Buzzard" of 1834]
* [http://www.pdavis.nl/ShowShip.php?id=2336 Information on the 1834 Buzzard]
* [http://home.wxs.nl/~pdavis/Log_Buzzard.htm Log of the 1852 "Buzzard"]
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