HMS Spider

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Spider has been the name of a number of vessels of the British Royal Navy;

• {{HMS|Spider|1782}}, formerly the privateer Victoire built at Dunkirk earlier that year, that the Royal Navy captured in 1782, took into service, and sold at Malta in 1806.
• {{HMS|Spider|1806}}, formerly Vigilante, a Spanish brig-rigged sloop captured on 4 April 1806 by HMS Renommee, and that served in the Royal Navy for the remainder of the Napoleonic Wars.{{cite web|url=http://www.nmm.ac.uk/upload/pdf/Warship_Histories_Vessels_x.pdf|title=NMM, vessel ID 376183|work=Warship Histories, vol x|publisher=National Maritime Museum|accessdate=30 July 2011|archive-url=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20110802041613/http://www.nmm.ac.uk/upload/pdf/Warship_Histories_Vessels_x.pdf|archive-date=2 August 2011|url-status=dead}} She was broken up in 1815 at Antigua.
• {{HMS|Spider|1835}}, a six-gun schooner built at Chatham in 1835 to a design by Sir Robert Seppings, which served in South America before becoming an engine fitters' vessel at Plymouth in 1855. Dimensions: Length Overall: 80' 2" x Breadth: 23' 3" x Depth: 9' 10"{{cite web|url=http://www.nmm.ac.uk/upload/pdf/Warship_Histories_Vessels_x.pdf|title=NMM, vessel ID 376185|work=Warship Histories, vol x|publisher=National Maritime Museum|accessdate=30 July 2011|archive-url=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20110802041613/http://www.nmm.ac.uk/upload/pdf/Warship_Histories_Vessels_x.pdf|archive-date=2 August 2011|url-status=dead}}
• {{HMS|Spider|1856}}, a wooden gunboat built on the Tyne by T W Smith in 1856, which later served in South America and South Africa. Dimensions: Length Overall: 106' x Breadth: 22' x Depth: 8' {{cite web|url=http://www.nmm.ac.uk/upload/pdf/Warship_Histories_Vessels_x.pdf|title=NMM, vessel ID 376186|work=Warship Histories, vol x|publisher=National Maritime Museum|accessdate=30 July 2011|archive-url=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20110802041613/http://www.nmm.ac.uk/upload/pdf/Warship_Histories_Vessels_x.pdf|archive-date=2 August 2011|url-status=dead}}
• {{HMS|Spider|1887}}, a steel, twin-screw torpedo gunboat built at Devonport in 1887.{{cite web|url=http://www.nmm.ac.uk/upload/pdf/Warship_Histories_Vessels_x.pdf|title=NMM, vessel ID 376187|work=Warship Histories, vol x|publisher=National Maritime Museum|accessdate=30 July 2011|archive-url=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20110802041613/http://www.nmm.ac.uk/upload/pdf/Warship_Histories_Vessels_x.pdf|archive-date=2 August 2011|url-status=dead}} Of 525 tons displacement, she was armed with one 4" gun and six 3-pounder Quick-firing guns. She had two fixed torpedo tubes and two launching cradles.
• HMS Spider, a coastal destroyer renamed {{HMS|TB 5|1906|2}} in 1906.{{cite web|url=http://www.nmm.ac.uk/upload/pdf/Warship_Histories_Vessels_x.pdf|title=NMM, vessel ID 376179|work=Warship Histories, vol x|publisher=National Maritime Museum|accessdate=30 July 2011|archive-url=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20110802041613/http://www.nmm.ac.uk/upload/pdf/Warship_Histories_Vessels_x.pdf|archive-date=2 August 2011|url-status=dead}}
• Spider, a stern-wheeled gunboat launched by Thornycroft in 1909 that in 1912 served the South Nigerian government.
• Spider, formerly the wooden fishing boat Francisco Antonio Quarto,{{sfnp|Carlier|1965|p=66}} purchased at Gibraltar in 1941 and used as a degaussing vessel.{{cite web|url=http://www.nmm.ac.uk/upload/pdf/Warship_Histories_Vessels_x.pdf|title=NMM, vessel ID 376181|work=Warship Histories, vol x|publisher=National Maritime Museum|accessdate=30 July 2011|archive-url=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20110802041613/http://www.nmm.ac.uk/upload/pdf/Warship_Histories_Vessels_x.pdf|archive-date=2 August 2011|url-status=dead}}

==See also==

At least two hired armed vessels also bore the name Spider:

• Hired armed lugger {{ship|Hired armed lugger|Spider||2}}
• Hired armed cutter {{ship|Hired armed cutter|Spider||2}}