Six ships of the Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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 have borne the name HMS Nimrod, after the biblical

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 figure of Nimrod:
was an 18-gun sloop

Sloop

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, previously the French ship Eole. She was captured in 1799 by HMS Solebay

HMS Solebay

Seven ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Solebay after the battle of Solebay on 7 June 1672, the first battle of the Third Anglo-Dutch War.* Solebay, launched in 1694, was a sixth-rate of 32 guns, wrecked in 1709 near Boston, Massachusetts....

 and sold in 1811. was 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 sloop

Brig

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 launched in 1812 and wrecked in 1827 when she was driven ashore after her anchor broke; she was refloated and gotten into dock where she was sold later that year. was a 20-gun sloop, previously a sixth rate named HMS Andromeda. She was renamed in 1827, before being launched in 1828. She was used as a coal hulk from 1853, being renamed C 1, and then C76. She was eventually sold in 1907. was an iron paddle gunboat

Gunboat

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 launched in 1839, re-erected at Basra

Basra

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 in 1840 and on the Navy lists until 1859. was a wood screw gunboat launched in 1856 and sold in 1865. was a Marksman class

Marksman class leader

The Marksman class were a class of flotilla leaders built for the Royal Navy. Two each were ordered in the naval programmes of 1913–14 and 1914–15 with a further three being ordered under the Emergency War Programme and all saw service during World War I.Like other British flotilla leader designs,...

 (also known as Lightfoot class) destroyer leader

Flotilla leader

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 launched in 1915 and sold in 1926. was a shore establishment at Campbeltown

Campbeltown

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, Argyll. Principal Asdic training school for officers and men from early 1940.

During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars the Admiralty also made use of hired armed cutters with the name of Nimrod

Hired armed cutter Nimrod

During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars the Admiralty also made use of hired armed vessels, one of which was the hired armed cutter Nimrod. Three such vessels are recorded, but the descriptions of these vessels and the dates of their service are such that they may well represent one...

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