HMS Traveller

Last updated July 08, 2023

Three ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Traveller:

HMS Traveller (1839) was a wooden paddle vessel purchased in 1839 and sold into mercantile service in 1844.
HMS Traveller (1856) was an Albacore-class wooden screw gunboat launched in 1856 and broken up by 1863.
HMS Traveller (1884) was an armed tug and special service vessel, purchased in 1885 and sold for further service in 1920^[1]^[2]
HMS Traveller (N48) was a T-class submarine launched in 1941 and sunk by an unknown cause in 1942.

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Twenty ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Swan, or the archaic HMS Swann, probably after the bird, the Swan:

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Four ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Hyaena, after the Hyena, a family of carnivorous mammals. Two others were planned but either commissioned under another name or cancelled.

Seven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Strombolo, or HMS Stromboli, after the volcano Stromboli, in Italy:

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References

↑ "Storm Cock". Scottish Built Ships. Caledonian Maritime Research Trust. Retrieved 7 July 2023.
↑ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times. No. 36764. London. 10 May 1902. p. 8.

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[1] "Storm Cock". Scottish Built Ships. Caledonian Maritime Research Trust. Retrieved 7 July 2023.

[2] "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times. No. 36764. London. 10 May 1902. p. 8.

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