HMS Hotspur

HMS Hotspur

Four ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS "Hotspur" after the nickname of Sir Henry Percy:

* The first "Hotspur" was a 36-gun fifth-rate in service from 1810 to 1821.
* The second "Hotspur" was a 46-gun fifth-rate launched in 1828, a chapel hulk after 1859, renamed "Monmouth" in 1868, and sold in 1902.
* The third "Hotspur" was an armoured ram launched in 1870 and sold in 1904.
* The fourth "Hotspur" (H01) was an H-class destroyer launched in 1936 and transferred to the Dominican Republic in 1948.

Fictional ships

* A "Hotspur" appears in the Horatio Hornblower novel, "Hornblower and the Hotspur", third in the series, armed with twenty 9 pounder cannons and four carronades(p 50, Pinnicle Books, eighth printing).
* A "Hotspur" appears in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's short story "The Adventure of the Gloria Scott".


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