Ten ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Hussar, after the hussar.
The first HMS Hussar (1727) was a 28-gun sixth rate launched in 1757 and captured by the French in 1762 after running aground off Cape François, Hispaniola due to the negligence of the pilot and the master.[1]
The second HMS Hussar (1763) was a 28-gun sixth rate launched in 1763 and wrecked on 24 November 1780 while trying to negotiate the Hell Gate passage near New York City. Hussar settled to the bottom, with her masts above water, on the Bronx (north) side of the channel shore. Rumors that she was carrying thousands of pounds in gold coin have never been confirmed, and repeated attempts to salvage the wreck have proven unsuccessful.[2]
The third Hussar was an American galley captured in 1778 and sold 1786. This Hussar may be the same Hussar galley built in Philadelphia during the 1777–1778 British occupation on the orders of Captain Sir Andrew Hammond to the Loyalists. It was used during the Battle of Red Bank and at Fort Mifflin under Lord Cornwallis.
The fourth Hussar was the Massachusetts Navy's 26-gun sixth-rate Protector, of 586 tons (bm), launched in 1779 at Newburyport, Massachusetts, that HMS Roebuck and HMS Medea captured on 5 May 1781; the Royal Navy renamed her HMS Hussar and sold her in 1783. The Danish East India Company purchased her.[3]
The fifth HMS Hussar (1784) was a 28-gun sixth rate launched in 1784 and wrecked on 27 December 1796 when a strong storm drove her onshore about 15 miles west of the Île de Batz.[4]
The sixth HMS Hussar (1798) was a 14-gun sloop, originally the French privateer Hussard, captured in 1798 and sold 1800.
The seventh HMS Hussar (1799) was a 38-gun fifth rate launched in 1799 and wrecked on 8 February 1804 by grounding on a reef near the Île de Sein. Her crew burnt her and most escaped in fishing vessels they commandeered from the islanders.[5]
The eighth HMS Hussar (1807) was a 46-gun[6] fifth rate launched 1807 and used in 1861 as a target.
The ninth HMS Hussar (1894) was a torpedo gunboat in service from 1894 to 1920.
The tenth HMS Hussar (J82) was a minesweeper launched in 1934 and accidentally sunk in 1944 off Normandy by Royal Air Force aircraft.
Ten ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMSHussar, after the hussar. The first HMSHussar (1727) was a 28-gun sixth rate launched in 1757 and captured...
1804 HMS Resistance 1805 HMS Apollo 1805 HMSHussar 1807 HMS Statira 1807 HMS Horatio 1807 HMS Spartan 1806 HMS Undaunted 1807 HMS Menelaus 1810 HMS Nisus...
carried 26 guns. On 19 November 1779 HMSHussar with 28 guns, under Captain Elliot Salter, was accompanying HMS Chatham with 50 guns. They were in convoy...
also notable due to the single-ship action fought between the 20-gun HMSHussar and the 32-gun French frigate Sybille in which he captured the French...
served aboard HMS Iron Duke on the staff of Admiral Sir John Jellicoe but in February 1915 he took command of the torpedo gunboat HMSHussar which had operated...
Aug: Samidare, U-188, V 404 Baden, V 411 Saarland 27 Aug: HMS Britomart, Clemenceau, HMSHussar 28 Aug: John Barry, V 407 Dorum 30 Aug: De Grasse, M553...
off Southend, she came under the authority of the Thames naval control at HMS Leigh located at the end of Southend Pier. The harbourmaster, responsible...
Wentworth granted a warrant to Commander Rupert George of HMSHussar. George sent press gangs from Hussar into Halifax. In one night they detained 50 to 60 men...
trawlers undertaking patrols from Crete. He went on to command the gunboat HMSHussar and, (as an acting captain) the Otranto Barrage, a fleet of small boats...
Commander Edward Unwin, formerly of the Dryad-class torpedo gunboat HMSHussar proposed the use of an anonymous-looking collier as a Trojan Horse, carrying...