Seven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Termagant, after Termagant, a god that Medieval Europeans believed Muslims worshipped, and that later came to be popularised by Shakespeare to mean a bullying person:
HMS Termagant (1780) was a 26-gun sixth rate launched in 1780, reduced to an 18-gun sloop in 1782, and sold in 1795.
HMS Termagant (1796) was an 18-gun sloop launched in 1796 and sold in 1819.
HMS Termagant (1822) was a 28-gun sixth rate launched in 1822. She was renamed HMS Herald in 1824. when she became a survey ship. She was sold in 1862.
HMS Termagant (1838) was a 3-gun brigantine, previously built as a Cherokee-class brig-sloop. She was launched in 1838, and sold in 1845.
HMS Termagant (1847) was a wooden screw frigate, launched in 1847 and sold in 1867.
HMS Termagant (1915) was a Talisman-class destroyer, originally built for the Turkish Navy but taken over as HMS Narborough, later renamed HMS Termagant and launched in 1915. She was sold in 1921 and broken up in 1923.
HMS Termagant (R89) was a T-class destroyer launched in 1943. She was converted to a Type 16 frigate between 1952 and 1953, and was broken up in 1965.
Seven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMSTermagant, after Termagant, a god that Medieval Europeans believed Muslims worshipped, and that later...
24-gun in 1817, and broken up in 1817. HMS Herald (1824) was a 500-ton, 28-gun sixth-rate, launched as HMSTermagant in 1822 and renamed in 1824. She served...
Turkish Navy but taken over as HMS Narborough, later renamed HMSTermagant and launched in 1915. She was sold in 1921. HMS Narborough (1916) was an Admiralty...
September 1943. Operated in the Aegean, sunk by British destroyers HMS Tuscan and HMSTermagant 19 October 1944. TA19: (ex-Calatafimi, Italian Curtatone-class...
Zeebrugge: HMS Erebus and HMS Terror (Erebus-class monitors) Escort to Zeebrugge monitors: HMSTermagant (Talisman-class destroyer), HMS Truculent (Yarrow...
Montague George Bentinck Legge HMSTermagant: Lt Cdr Cuthbert Patrick Blake (attached from 10th D.F., Harwich Force) HMS Moresby: Lt Cdr Roger Vincent...
Hunt-class HMS Atherstone, HMS Cleveland, HMS Whaddon HMS Beaufort, HMS Bicester, HMS Blackmore, HMS Calpe, HMS Farndale, HMS Lauderdale, HMS Liddesdale, HMS Oakley...
1849 Termagant class 1847 – second class HMSTermagant 1847 HMS Euphrates – cancelled 1849 Tribune class 1853 – second class HMS Tribune 1853 HMS Curacoa...
French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Losack commanded the brig HMSTermagant in the Caribbean during the late stages of the American Revolutionary...
Blavet river in 1799. Capricieuse (1793), a 4-gun tartane, captured by HMSTermagant on 22 August 1800 Capricieuse (1828), an aviso Capricieuse (1849), a...
the destroyer HMS Garth and then, from late in 1943, the destroyer HMS Termagant. He served with distinction and was awarded the Distinguished Service...
of Alexandria. Schomberg was appointed acting-commander of the sloop Termagant, though it is unclear if he ever took command of her as he was employed...
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