HMS Spanker

HMS Spanker

Four vessels of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS "Spanker":

* "Spanker", a 24-gun floating battery of 500 tons (builder's measurement) launched at Deptford in 1794, and deleted from the Navy List on 31 August 1810.
* "Spanker", an "Albacore"-class wooden screw gunboat in service from 1856 to 1874.
* "Spanker", a torpedo gunboat launched in 1889 and converted to a minesweeper in 1909. Sold for scrap in March 1920.
* "Spanker", an "Algerine"-class minsweeper launched in 1943 and decommissioned in 1947. She was sold to the Belgian Navy in 1953 and renamed HNLMS "De Brouwer". Broken up at Ghent in 1968.

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