HMS Telegraph

Last updated April 18, 2023

At least two vessels in the service of the Royal Navy have borne the name Telegraph.

HM hired brig Telegraph (1798), was a 14-gun brig that was launched in 1798 and participated in 1799 in an engagement that earned the crew a Naval General Service Medal. She and her entire crew were lost at sea in 1801.
HMS Telegraph (1813), was the former American privateer Vengeance, captured in 1813 and wrecked in 1817 with the loss of one man.

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