HMS Chatham

Fifteen ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS "Chatham" after the port of Chatham, Kent, home of the Chatham Dockyard

*HMS "Chatham" was a galliot captured in 1666 during the Second Anglo-Dutch War and given away in 1667.
*HMS "Chatham" was a 4-gun sloop launched in 1673 and wrecked in 1677.
*HMS "Chatham" was a fourth-rate launched in 1691 and sunk as a breakwater at Sheerness in 1749. She was raised and broken up in 1762.
*HMS "Chatham" was a 4-gun yacht launched in 1716 and sold in 1742.
*HMS "Chatham" was a 6-gun yacht launched in 1741. She was rebuilt in 1793 and 1842, and broken up by 1867.
*HMS "Chatham" was a 50-gun fourth-rate launched in 1758. She was used for harbour service from 1793 and was a powder hulk from 1805. She was renamed HMS "Tilbury" in 1810 and was broken up in 1814.
*HMS "Chatham" was a 4-gun survey brig, launched in 1788. She was part of George Vancouver's expedition of the Pacific Northwest coast and circumnavigated the globe. She was sold in 1830.
*HMS "Chatham" was a 4-gun schooner purchased in 1790 and sold in 1794.
*HMS "Chatham" was a hired sloop in service in 1793.
*HMS "Chatham" was a transport launched in 1811 and sunk as a breakwater in 1825.
*HMS "Chatham" was a 74-gun third-rate, originally the French "Royal Hollandais". She was captured on the stocks in 1809 at Flushing, launched in 1812, and sold in 1817.
*HMS "Chatham" was a sheer hulk launched in 1813 and broken up in 1876.
*HMS "Chatham" was an iron paddlewheel gunboat launched in 1835. She was subsequently exported to the United States and became a blockade runner for the Confederate Navy during the American Civil War. She was captured by the USS "Huron" in 1863 and became the USS "Chatham". She served with the US Navy until 1865.
*HMS "Chatham" was a Town class light cruiser launched in 1911. She was lent to the Royal New Zealand Navy in 1920 and was scrapped in 1926.
*HMS "Chatham" is a Type 22 frigate. She was launched in 1988 and is currently in service.

ee also

*HMS "Chatham Double"
*HMS "Chatham Hulk"
*HMS "Chatham Prize"

References

*Colledge