Eight ships of Britain

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's Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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 have been named HMS Eclipse:
, a 12-gun, 169 ton gunboat launched at Blackwall on 29 March 1797 and sold in October 1802., a 12-gun French brig originally called Venteux captured by the Royal Navy 1803. Renamed Eagle soon after capture, her name was changed on 26 August 1803 to Eclipse. Sold on 7 April 1807. an 18-gun Cruizer-class

Cruizer class brig-sloop

The Cruizer class was an 18-gun class of brig-sloops of the Royal Navy. Brig-sloops were the same as ship-sloops except for their rigging...

 brig

Brig

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 sloop launched at Dover on 4 August 1807 and sold on 31 August 1817., a 10-gun Cherokee-class brig sloop sold in 10 November 1863., a 700-ton wooden screw sloop launched at Millwall

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 on 18 September 1860 and broken up in July 1867., a 1,267-ton Eclipse-class

Eclipse class sloop

The Eclipse class was a class of seven 6-gun wooden screw sloops built for the Royal Navy between 1867 and 1870. They were re-armed and re-classified as 12-gun corvettes in 1876. Two further vessel were proposed but never ordered.-Design:...

 wooden screw sloop

Screw sloop

A screw sloop is a propeller-driven sloop-of-war. In the 19th century, during the introduction of the steam engine, ships driven by propellers were differentiated from those driven by paddle-wheels by referring to the ship's screws...

 originally named Sappho but renamed before her launch at Sheerness on 14 November 1867 and lent to the War Department

War Department (UK)

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 for use as a storage hulk between 1888 and 1892. Sold in 1921., the lead ship

Lead ship

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 of her class

Eclipse class cruiser

The Eclipse-class cruisers of the Royal Navy were protected cruisers constructed in the mid-1890s.-Design and history:They were enlarged versions of the preceding Astraea class. Between 1903 and 1905, all of the ships in the class except for Eclipse had their mixed and guns removed and replaced...

 of cruisers. Launched at Portsmouth on 19 July 1894 and sold in August 1921., an E and F class destroyer

E and F class destroyer

The E and F class was a class of 18 destroyers of the Royal Navy that served during the Second World War. Three ships were later transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy, one to the Royal Hellenic Navy and one to the Dominican Navy. Launched in 1934, they served in the Second World War. Nine were lost...

 launched at Denny

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 on 12 April 1934 and sunk by a mine

Naval mine

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 in the Aegean Sea

Aegean Sea

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on 24 October 1943.