HMS Eclipse

HMS Eclipse

Eight ships of Britain's Royal Navy have been named HMS "Eclipse":

*HMS|Eclipse|1797|6, a 12-gun, 169 ton gunboat launched at Blackwall on 29 March 1797 and sold in October 1802.
*HMS|Eclipse|1803|6, a 12-gun French brig originally called "Venteux" captured by the Royal Navy 1803. Renamed "Eagle" soon after capture, her name was changed on 26 August 1803 to "Eclipse". Sold on 7 April 1807
*HMS|Eclipse|1807|6 an 18-gun "Cruizer"-class brig sloop launched at Dover on 4 August 1807 and sold on 31 August 1817.
*HMS|Eclipse|1819|6, a 10-gun "Cherokee"-class brig sloop sold in 10 November 1863.
*HMS|Eclipse|1860|6, a 700-ton wooden screw sloop launched at Millwall on 18 September 1860 and broken up in July 1867.
*HMS|Eclipse|1867|6, a 1,267-ton "Eclipse"-class wooden screw sloop originally named "Sappho" but renamed before her launch at Sheerness on 14 November 1867 and lent to the War Department for use as a storage hulk between 1888 and 1892. Sold in 1921.
*HMS|Eclipse|1894|6, the lead ship of her class of cruisers. Launched at Portsmouth on 19 July 1894 and sold in August 1921.
*HMS|Eclipse|H08|6, an E and F class destroyer launched at Denny on 12 April 1934 and sunk by a mine in the Aegean Sea on 24 October 1943.

References

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