HMS Experiment

Thirteen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS "Experiment":

*HMS|Experiment|1664 was a double hulled sloop built in 1664 and lost in 1687.
*HMS|Experiment|1667 was a 4-gun sloop built in 1667 and on the Navy List until 1682.
*HMS|Experiment|1689 was a 32-gun fifth rate frigate built in 1689, rebuilt in 1727 and broken up in 1738. Her logbook survives. [ [http://www.meteohistory.org/2005historyofmeteorology2/10wheeler.pdf Naval logbooks] ]
*HMS|Experiment|1740 was a 24-gun sixth rate, launched in 1740 and sold in 1763. She captured the French privateer "Telemaque" in 1757 [ [http://www.nmm.ac.uk/searchbin/searchs.pl?exhibit=it0201c&axis=1195662039&flash=&dev= National Maritime Museum] ] and had a young John Jervis serving on board her. [ [http://www.royalnavalmuseum.org/info_sheets_john_jervis.htm Royal Naval Museum] ]
*HMS|Experiment|1765 was a storeship, purchased in 1765 and sold in 1768.
*HMS|Experiment|1772 was a gunvessel, built in 1772. Her fate is unknown. Possibly lost in the Great Hurricane of 1780
*HMS|Experiment|1774 was a 50-gun fourth rate launched in 1774. She was captured by the French ship "Sagittaire" off the North American coast in 1778.
*HMS|Experiment|1781 was a 14-gun brig-sloop purchased in 1781 and sold in 1785.
*HMS|Experiment|1784 was a 44-gun fifth rate launched in 1784, used as a storeship from 1795 and for harbour service from 1805. She was sold in 1836.
*HMS|Experiment|1793 was a 10-gun lugger launched in 1793 and captured by the Spanish in the Mediterranean in 1796.
*HMS|Experiment|1794 was a fire ship purchased in 1794 and sold in 1801.
*HMS|Experiment|1799 was a 2-gun gunvessel launched in 1799, gone from the Navy List by 1809.
*HMS|Experiment|1838 was a wood paddle sloop serving on the Canadian Lakes. She was purchased in 1838 and sold in 1848.

References

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