HMS Subtle

Last updated December 30, 2021

Subtle has been the name of more than one ship of the British Royal Navy, and may refer to:

Subtle (31) (also Red Galley); listed 1544 to 1560.
HMS Subtle (1806) was previously the French schooner Impériale that HMS Cygnet captured in 1806; she received the name Vigilant, and later that year, Subtle. She was wrecked off Bermuda in 1807.
HMS Subtle (1807) was a vessel of uncertain origin captured in 1807; Subtle was wrecked in 1812.
HMS Subtle (P251) was an S-class submarine launched in January 1944 and sold for breaking up in July 1959 in Charlestown.

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The French schooner Impériale was a 3-gun mercantile schooner-aviso of the French Navy commissioned at Guadeloupe on 23 September 1805. The Royal Navy captured her on 24 May 1806 and named her HMS Vigilant. The Navy renamed her HMS Subtle on 20 November 1806. She wrecked at Bermuda on 20 October 1807.

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