HMS Salamander

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Ships bearing the name HMS Salamander include:

:This list may be incomplete.

• {{HMS|Salamander|1687}} was a bomb ship built in 1687 at the Chatham Dockyard. Sold in 1713.
• {{HMS|Salamander|1730}}, renamed from Basilisk while on the stocks, was a bomb ketch of 265{{small|{{frac|76|94}}}} tons (bm) launched on 4 September 1730 at the Woolwich Dockyard. Sold in 1744 to the British East India Company.{{sfnp|Hackman|2001|p=340}}{{cite web |url=https://threedecks.org/index.php?display_type=show_ship&id=6394 |title=British bomb vessel 'Salamander' (1730) |publisher=Threedecks |access-date=30 November 2020 }}
• {{HMS|Salamander|1745}} was a fire ship purchased in 1745. Sold in 1748.
• {{HMS|Salamander|1757}} was a fire ship purchased in 1757. Sold in 1761.
• {{HMS|Salamander|1778}} was HMS Shark, converted to a fireship and renamed in 1778. The Navy sold her in 1783. She then became a Greenland whaler, merchantman, convict transport to Australia, South Seas whaler, merchantman again, and slave ship. She was last listed in 1811, but did not appear in newspapers after 1804.
• {{HMS|Salamander|1804}} was the mercantile Busy, launched at Yarmouth in 1777 that the Navy purchased in 1804 for use as a fireship but sold in 1807.
• {{HMS|Salamander|1832}} was an 818-ton, 4-gun paddle sloop launched in 1832 and broken up in 1883.
• {{HMS|Salamander|1889}} was a {{sclass|Sharpshooter|torpedo gunboat}} built in 1889 at the Chatham Dockyard. Sold for breaking in 1906.
• {{HMS|Salamander|J86}} was a {{sclass|Halcyon|minesweeper}} launched in 1936. She participated in the Second World War. She was scrapped in 1947.