HMS Nimble

Several vessels of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Nimble.

• HMS Nimble (1778) was a 12-gun cutter that was wrecked in 1781 with the loss of 28 men.[1]
• HMS Nimble (1781) was a purchased 12-gun cutter that ran aground in 1808 in Stangate Creek in the Medway and was then sold.[2]
• HMS Nimble (1811) was a Nimble-class 10-gun cutter commissioned wrecked during a violent storm in the Kattegat on 6 October 1812.
• HMS Nimble (1813) was a new cutter that the Royal Navy purchased in 1813. The Navy sold her in 1816.
• HMS Nimble whose crew dislodged the Logan Rock whilst stationed off Land's End in April 1824.
• HMS Nimble (1826) was a 5-gun schooner employed off Cuba in the suppression of the slave trade until she was wrecked on 4 November 1834.[3]
• HMS Nimble (1860) was a gunvessel of 5 guns that had a relatively uneventful career before she became a drill ship for the Royal Naval Reserve in 1890 and was disposed of in 1906.
• HMS Nimble (1906) was built as the excursion steamer Roslin Castle. Acquired 1908 and converted into a tender. Based at Sheerness from 1908, and Chatham from 1922.[4]
• HMS Nimble (W 123) was a rescue tug launched in 1942 and sold in 1968.[5]

Related vessels

There was a revenue cutter Nimble, of Deal, that the French captured and that became the French privateer Dunqerquois. The hired armed cutter Princess Augusta destroyed her on 5 March 1808.

Citations

1. Hepper (1994), p. 61.
2. Gosset (1986), p. 69.
3. Gosset (1986), p. 105.
4. "Roslin Castle". Scottish Built Ships. Caledonian MaritimeResearch Trust. Retrieved 12 September 2024.
5. Helgason, Guðmundur. "HMS Nimble (W 123)". uboat.net.

References

• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
• Gosset, William Patrick (1986). The lost ships of the Royal Navy, 1793-1900. Mansell. ISBN 0-7201-1816-6.
• Hepper, David J (1994). British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail, 1650–1859. Rotherfield: Jean Boudriot. ISBN 0-948864-30-3.
• Winfield, Rif (2008). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-246-7.