HMS Cachalot

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Several ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Cachalot, after the marine mammal, the cachalot, or sperm whale:

Notes

  1. ↑ Colledge, J J (1970). Ships of the Royal Navy: an historical index. Vol 2. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. p. 63.
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