HMS Charwell

Last updated December 25, 2021

Four ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Charwell (or Cherwell), after the River Cherwell, a tributary of the River Thames:

HMS Charwell was the 18-gun French corvette Aurore, which HMS Thames captured in 1801. She was sold in 1813.
HMS Charwell was the 16-gun ship-sloop HMS Earl of Moira, launched in 1805 on the Great Lakes, and renamed Charwell in 1814. She was sold in 1837.
HMS Cherwell (1903) was a destroyer launched in 1903 and sold in 1919.
HMS Cherwell was a Mersey-class Royal Navy trawler launched as HMS James Jones in 1918, renamed Cherwell in 1920, used as a boom-defense vessel in 1942, and sold in 1946.

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The 16-gun French Mutine-class corvette Aurore was launched in 1799. The British frigate HMS Thames captured her in 1801; she was commissioned into the Royal Navy in 1803 and named HMS Charwell. Charwell served in the Channel, South Atlantic, and Indian Ocean. She was laid up in 1810 and sold in 1813.

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