HMS Otter

Last updated April 21, 2020

Twelve ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Otter, for the otter.

HMS Otter (1700) was a 4-gun ketch launched in 1700 and captured by the French in 1702.
HMS Otter (1709) was a 14-gun sixth rate launched in 1709 and sold in 1713.
HMS Otter (1721) was an 8-gun sloop launched in 1721 and wrecked in 1741.
HMS Otter (1742) was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1742 and sold in 1763.
HMS Otter (1767) was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1767 and wrecked in 1778.^{[ citation needed ]}^{[ dubious – discuss ]}
HMS Otter (1778) was a 14-gun sloop, the former French merchantman Glanure, that the British Royal Navy captured in 1778 during the war declared between Britain and France upon the alliance signed with the new independent United States (former Thirteen Colonies of British North America) as part of the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). She explored and scouted American waters including Maryland, Chesapeake Bay and the Port of Baltimore Town. Sold later in 1783 after the peace with British and recognition of American Independence. She then became the merchantman and slave ship Cyclops. The French captured her two decades later in December 1795 during the French Revolutionary Wars as she was delivering her third cargo of slaves to the West Indies islands around the Caribbean Sea.
HMS Otter (1782) was a 14-gun brig-sloop launched in 1782. She was converted to a fireship in 1800 and was sold in 1801.
HMS Otter (1805) was an 18-gun sloop launched in 1805. She was used for harbour service in home waters from 1814 and was sold in 1828.
HMS Otter (1837) was a wooden paddle packet, previously the General Post Office (GPO) vessel Wizard carrying the Royal Mail. She was transferred to the Royal Navy in 1837, became a gun vessel in 1854, a tug in 1865, a coal hulk by 1878 and was sold in 1893, probably broken up.
HMQS Otter was a screw gunboat launched in 1884. She served with the several colonial navies as HMQS Otter for Queensland Maritime Defence Force and later newly organized Commonwealth Naval Forces of the Commonwealth of Australia (declared 1901) and was sold in 1906. She was later rehired by the Royal Australian Navy as HMAS Otter.
HMS Otter (1896) was an Avon-class destroyer launched in 1896 for the British Royal Navy and sold in 1916.
HMS Otter (S15) was an Oberon-class submarine launched in 1962 for the United Kingdom's Royal Navy and sold in 1992, after the fall of communism and the Soviet Union.

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HMS Otter was the French merchantman Glanure, which the Royal Navy (RN) captured early in 1778. The Royal Navy took her into service as the sloop HMS Otter and she served in the American theatre. The Navy sold her in 1783. She became a merchantman and then a slave ship. She made two complete voyages bringing slaves to Jamaica. The French captured her in December 1795 as she was on her way to deliver her third cargo of slaves.

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