HMS Mercury
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Eighteen Royal Navy ships and two schools have borne the name HMS Mercury, or HMS Mercure, after the God Mercury, of Roman mythology
Ships
- {{HMS|Mercury|1592}} was a 6-gun galley launched in 1592 and sold in 1611.
- {{HMS|Mercury|1620}} was a ship launched in 1620. Her fate is unknown.
- {{HMS|Mercury|1622}} was a ship purchased in 1622. Her fate is unknown.
- {{HMS|Mercury|1694}} was a 6-gun advice boat launched in 1694 and captured by a French privateer in 1697.
- {{HMS|Mercury|1739}} was an 8-gun fireship purchased in 1739 and foundered in 1744.
- {{HMS|Mercury|1744}} was a 16-gun brigantine launched in 1744 and captured in 1745.
- {{HMS|Mercury|1745}} was a 24-gun sixth rate launched in 1745 and broken up in 1753.
- {{HMS|Mercury|1756}} was a 20-gun sixth rate launched in 1756 and wrecked in 1777.
- {{HMS|Mercury|1760}} was an unrated schooner in service 1760–65.{{cite web |url=https://threedecks.org/index.php?display_type=show_ship&id=13797 |title=British schooner 'Mercury' (1760) |publisher=Threedecks |accessdate=28 August 2021 }}
- {{HMS|Mercury|1779}} was a 28-gun sixth rate launched in 1779 and broken up in 1814.
- {{HMS|Mercure|1798}} was an 18-gun sloop. She was formerly a French privateer that {{HMS|Phaeton|1782|2}} and {{HMS|Anson|1781|2}} captured in 1798. She was renamed HMS Trompeuse in 1799 and foundered in 1800.
- {{HMS|Mercury|1807}} was a tender launched in 1807 and broken up in 1835.
- {{HMS|Mercury|1826}} was a 46-gun fifth rate launched in 1826, used as a coal hulk from 1861 and sold in 1906.
- {{HMS|Mercury|1837}} was a cutter tender launched in 1837, renamed YC6 in 1866, HMS Plymouth in 1876, and sold in 1904.
- {{HMS|Mercury|1878}} was an {{sclass|Iris|cruiser}} and despatch vessel launched in 1878, converted to a depot ship in 1906, and sold in 1919. She was to have been named HMS Columbine in 1912, but this did not happen.
- {{HMS|Mercury|1892}} was an auxiliary minesweeper sunk during World War I.
- {{HMS|Mercury|1934}} was a paddle steamer requisition during World War II for use as an auxiliary minesweeper which struck a mine and sank in 1940.
School
{{HMS|Mercury|shore establishment}} was a Royal Naval Communications/Signal School sited at Leydene House near Petersfield, Hampshire, in commission from 1941 until 1993. A subsidiary (HMS Mercury II) was also created.
See also
- {{ship|HCS|Mercury|1806}}, a 14-gun brig launched at Bombay Dockyard in 1806 for the naval arm of the British East India Company and lost at sea in 1833.
- {{ship||Mercury|1806 ship}} or Mercury Packet, launched at Calcutta in 1806 and sold at Java in 1822.
- {{ship|TS|Mercury}}, a naval training establishment until 1968 at Hamble in Hampshire, founded as a ship in 1885.
References
- {{Cite Colledge2006}}
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