HMS Partridge
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Several ships of the British Royal Navy
have been named HMS Partridge, after the bird
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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 been named HMS Partridge, after the bird
Partridge
Partridges are birds in the pheasant family, Phasianidae. They are a non-migratory Old World group.These are medium-sized birds, intermediate between the larger pheasants and the smaller quails. Partridges are native to Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East...
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- The first Partridge was an 18 gun sloop launched at Dartmouth on 15 July 1809 and broken up in September 1816.
- The second Partridge was a 10 gun Cherokee-class brig-sloop launched at Plymouth Dockyard on 22 March 1822 and stranded aground off the Dutch island of TexelTexelTexel is a municipality and an island in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. It is the biggest and most populated of the Frisian Islands in the Wadden Sea, and also the westernmost of this archipelago, which extends to Denmark...
on 28 November 1824. - The third Partridge' was another 10 gun Cherokee-class brig-sloop, launched at Pembroke on 12 October 1829. Recommissioned as a coastguard watchvessel (WV32) on 25 May 1863 the ship was sold at Southampton on 2 February 1864.
- The fourth Partridge was an Albacore-class wooden screw gunboat launched at Nartham on 29 March 1856 and sold for breaking up on 8 September 1864.
- The fifth Partridge was a composite screw gunboat launched at Devonport Dockyard on 10 May 1888 and sold in 1909.
- The sixth Partridge was an Admiralty M class destroyerAdmiralty 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...
launched on 4 March 1916 and sunk by German destroyers in the North Sea on 12 December 1917. - The seventh Partridge was a P class destroyerO and P class destroyerThe O and P class was a class of destroyers of the British Royal Navy. Ordered in 1939, they were the first ships in the War Emergency Programme, also known as the 1st and 2nd Emergency Flotilla, respectively...
launched at Govan on 5 August 1941 and sunk by the German submarine U-565 commanded by Wilhelm FrankenWilhelm FrankenWilhelm Franken was a German U-boat commander in World War II and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross . The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership...
in the Mediterranean on 18 December 1942. - Partridge was a sloop ordered from J. I. Thorneycroft & Co on 9 October 1944 but cancelled in October 1945.