HMS Morning Star

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Four ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Morning Star, after the poetic name for Venus:

Note: Colledge & Warlow list an HMS Morning Star and describe her a 22-gun sloop of 350 tons burthen launched in 1799 at the Bombay Dockyard for the Indian [Navy]. [1] However, there was no Indian Navy at the time, only the Bombay Marine, the naval arm of the British East India Company. More critically, the most complete list of ships built at the Bombay Dockyard shows no such vessel. It does show a Mornington, of 22 guns and 438 tons burthen being launched in 1799. She was later sold at auction. [2]

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Citations

  1. ↑ Colledge & Warlow (2006), p. 268.
  2. ↑ Wadia (1986), p. 336.

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