HMS CHATHAM

Fifteen ships of the Royal Navy have been named 'HMS ''Chatham''' after the port of Chatham, Kent, home of the Chatham Dockyard

★ The first ''Chatham'' was a galliot captured in 1666 during the Second Anglo-Dutch War.

★ The second ''Chatham'' was a 4-gun sloop launched in 1673 and wrecked in 1677.

★ The third ''Chatham'' was a fourth-rate launched in 1691 and sunk as a breakwater at Sheerness in 1749.

★ The fourth ''Chatham'' was a 4-gun yacht launched in 1716 and sold in 1742.

★ The fifth ''Chatham'' was a 6-gun yacht, launched in 1741 and broken up in 1767.

★ The sixth ''Chatham'' was a 50-gun fourth-rate launched in 1758 and broken up in 1814.

★ The seventh ''Chatham'' was a 4-gun survey brig, launched in 1788 and sold in 1830. From 1791 to 1795, along with the better-known ''HMS Discovery'' and under the overall command of George Vancouver, this vessel sailed around the world, conducting a detailed survey of the Pacific Northwest coast. In 1792, Vancouver's lieutenant (later Rear Admiral) Peter Puget was made her acting Commander.

★ The eighth ''Chatham'' was a 4-gun schooner launched in 1790 and sold in 1794.

★ The ninth ''Chatham'' was a sloop hired in 1793.

★ The tenth ''Chatham'' was transport launched in 1811 and sunk as a breakwater in 1825.

★ The eleventh ''Chatham'' was a 74-gun third-rate, originally the French ''Royal Hollandais'', captured on the stocks in 1809 at Flushing, launched in 1812, and sold in 1817.

★ The twelfth ''Chatham'' was a sheer hulk launched in 1813 and broken up in 1876.

★ The thirteenth ''Chatham'' was an iron paddlewheel gunboat launched in 1835.

★ The fourteenth ''Chatham'', launched in 1911, was a ''Chatham''-class light cruiser scrapped in 1926.

★ The fifteenth ''Chatham'' (F87), launched in 1988, is a Type 22 frigate.

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★ HMS ''Chatham Double''

★ HMS ''Chatham Hulk''

★ HMS ''Chatham Prize''

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