HMS Spencer

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Two ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Spencer. A third was renamed before being launched:

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Although a website identifies an HMS Spencer as being wrecked near Falmouth in 1754, [3] neither Colledge & Warlow, nor Hepper, have any trace of this vessel or wreck. She may have been a merchant rather than a naval vessel.

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  1. ↑ Hepper (1994), pp.105-6.
  2. ↑ "No. 15817". The London Gazette . 18 June 1805. p. 800.
  3. ↑ Lettens, Jan. "HMS Spencer (+1754)". wrecksite. Retrieved 8 May 2012.

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HMS Spencer was a 16-gun brig-sloop of the Royal Navy, formerly the civilian Sir Charles Grey. The Admiralty purchased her in 1795, after having hired her in 1793-94, and renamed her HMS Lilly in 1800. The French privateer Dame Ambert captured her in 1804 and Lilly became the French privateer Général Ernouf. She blew up in 1805 while in an engagement with HMS Renard.

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