HMS Imogen

Last updated May 13, 2022

Six ships of the Royal Navy have been called HMS Imogen or HMS Imogene. A seventh was planned but never built:

HMS Imogen (1800) was an 18-gun sloop, originally the French privateer Diable-a-Quatre. She was captured in 1800 and foundered in 1805.
HMS Imogen (1805) was a 16-gun brig-sloop launched in 1805 and sold in 1817.
HMS Imogene (1831) was a 28-gun sixth rate, originally named HMS Pearl, but renamed in 1826 and launched in 1831. She was burnt by accident in 1840.
HMS Imogene was to have been a wooden screw corvette, ordered in 1861 but cancelled in 1863.
HMS Imogene (1864) was a Coastguard vessel launched in 1864. She was renamed HMS Argus in 1884 and was sold in 1903.
HMS Imogene (1882) was an iron screw yacht, formerly the Jacamar, built in 1882 by Barclay, Curle & Co, Glasgow. She was purchased in 1882, renamed HMS Impey in 1919 and was sold later that year.
HMS Imogen (D44) was an I-class destroyer launched in 1936 and sunk in a collision in 1940.

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