HMS St Lucia

Last updated December 30, 2021

Two vessels of the Royal Navy has borne the name HMS St Lucia or HMS Saint Lucia, while another was planned:

HMS St Lucia (1780) was a small brig that Admiral Rodney bought in 1780 and which he appointed Lieutenant John Hutt to command; Hutt transferred to HMS Sandwich in October and it is not clear what became of St Lucia.
HMS Saint Lucia (1803) was a 14-gun gun-brig, previously the French Navy schooner Enfant Prodigue. HMS Emerald captured her in 1803, but French privateers recaptured her in 1807.
HMS St Lucia was to have been a Battle-class destroyer. She was laid down in 1945 but was canceled later that year.

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