HMS Pearl
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HMS Pearl may refer to:
- HMS Pearl (1708), a fourth-rate of 42 guns launched in 1708; a detachment of its crew under Lieutenant Robert Maynard killed Blackbeard in 1718; broken up in 1722
- HMS Pearl (1726), a fourth-rate of 42 guns launched in 1726 and sold in 1744
- HMS Pearl (1744), a fifth-rate of 44 guns launched in 1744 and sold in 1759
- HMS Pearl (1762), a fifth-rate of 32 guns launched in 1762, renamed Prothee in 1825, and sold in 1832. Because Pearl served in the navy's Egyptian campaign (8 March to 2 September 1801), her officers and crew qualified for the clasp "Egypt" to the Naval General Service Medal, which the Admiralty issued in 1847 to all surviving claimants.[1]
- HMS Pearl (1828), a sloop of 20 guns launched in 1828
- HMS Pearl (1855), a corvette of 21 guns launched in 1855
- HMS Pearl (1890), a Pearl-class cruiser launched in 1890 and sold for scrap in 1906
See also
- Pearl (disambiguation), for other ships of this name
Sources
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This article includes a list of ships with the same or similar names. If an internal link for a specific ship led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ship article, if one exists.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 21077. pp. 791–792. 15 March 1850.
