HMS Thistle

HMS Thistle

Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS "Thistle", after the thistle, the national flower of Scotland:

*HMS "Thistle" was a 10-gun schooner launched in 1808 and wrecked in 1811.
*HMS "Thistle" was a 12-gun brig launched in 1812 and broken up in 1823.
*HMS "Thistle" was a "Dapper" class wood screw gunboat launched in 1855 and broken up in 1863.
*HMS "Thistle" was a composite screw gunvessel launched in 1868 and sold in 1888.
*HMS "Thistle" was a "Bramble" class gunboat launched in 1899 and sold in 1926.
*HMS "Thistle" was a T class submarine launched in 1939 and sunk in 1940.

In fiction

*HMS "Thistle" is a corvette in Douglas Reeman's book "To Risks Unknown", set in 1943.


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