HMS Gipsy
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HMS Gipsy has been the name of several Royal Navy
ships:
Royal Navy
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ships:
- Gipsy, a schoonerSchoonerA schooner is a type of sailing vessel characterized by the use of fore-and-aft sails on two or more masts with the forward mast being no taller than the rear masts....
in service from 1799 to 1804., a schooner purchased in Jamaica in 1804 and sold in 1808. - Gipsy, a schooner tender launched in 1836 and sold in 1892.
- GipsyHMS Gipsy (1897)HMS Gipsy was a Gipsy-class destroyer which served with the Royal Navy . She was launched by Fairfield on the 9th of March 1897 and served in home waters through World War I. She destroyed U-48, a U boat which had foundered on the Goodwin Sands on 24 November 1917. She was sold off in...
, a C class destroyerC class destroyer (1913)The C class as designated in 1913 was a heterogeneous group of torpedo boat destroyers built for the Royal Navy in the late-1890s. They were constructed to the individual designs of their builders to meet Admiralty specifications. The uniting feature of the class was a top speed of 30 knots, a...
launched in 1897 and sold in 1921. The hull was used as a pontoon until at least 1937. - GipsyHMS Gipsy (H63)HMS Gipsy was a G-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy during the 1930s. She spent most of the pre-war period as part of the Mediterranean Fleet. The ship was transferred to the British Isles to escort shipping in local waters shortly after the beginning of World War II...
, a G-classG and H class destroyerThe G- and H-class destroyers were a class of twenty-four destroyers of the Royal Navy launched in 1935–1939. They served in World War II and sixteen were lost, with a seventeenth being written off as a constructive total loss...
destroyer launched in 1935 and mined on 21 November 1939 off Harwich.