HMS Kingfisher (1675)

HMS Kingfisher (1675)

HMS "Kingfisher" was a 46-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Phineas Pett III at Woolwich Dockyard and launched in 1675. She was specially designed to counter the attacks of Algerine corsairs (pirates) in the Mediterranean by masquerading as a merchantman, a ruse which she achieved by hiding her armament behind false bulkheads, and she was provided with various means of changing her appearance. In essence she was the 17th century equivalent of the WWI Q-ship.Fact|date=August 2008

"Kingfisher" was rebuilt at Woolwich in 1699, as a fourth rate of 46-54 guns. She was hulked in 1706, and was broken up in 1728.

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*Lavery, Brian (2003) "The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850." Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-252-8.

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