HMS Magic
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Two ships of the Royal Navy
have borne the name HMS Magic. A third was planned, but renamed before being launched:
Royal Navy
The Royal Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Founded in the 16th century, it is the oldest service branch and is known as the Senior Service...
have borne the name HMS Magic. A third was planned, but renamed before being launched:
- HMS MagicHMS Lassoo (1915)HMS Lassoo was a Laforey-class destroyer of the Royal Navy.She was built during the First World War as part of an emergency program of naval construction, to an Admiralty design by William Beardmore & Company, Dalmuir...
was to have been a Laforey classLaforey class destroyer (1913)The Laforey class was a class of 22 torpedo boat destroyers of the Royal Navy, twenty of which were built under the Naval Programme of 1912 - 1913 and a further two under the War Emergency Programme of 1914. As such they were the last pre-war British destroyer design. All served during World War I...
destroyer. She was renamed before being launched in 1915. was an M classAdmiralty M class destroyerThe M class, more properly known as the Admiralty M class, were a class of 85 destroyers built for the Royal Navy that saw service during World War I...
destroyer, ordered as HMS Marigold, but renamed before being launched in 1915. She was sold in 1921. was a Catherine class minesweeperMinesweeper (ship)A minesweeper is a small naval warship designed to counter the threat posed by naval mines. Minesweepers generally detect then neutralize mines in advance of other naval operations.-History:...
launched in 1943 and sunk in 1944.