HMS Sphinx
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Template:DMCA Template:DMCA Six ships (and one shore establishment) of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Sphinx or HMS Sphynx, after the mythical creature, the Sphinx:
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:WPSHIPS utilities/data' not found. was a 24-gun sixth rate launched in 1748 and sold in 1770.
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:WPSHIPS utilities/data' not found. was a 20-gun sixth rate launched in 1775. The French captured her in September 1779,[1] but Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:WPSHIPS utilities/data' not found. recaptured her on 29 November 1779.[2] She was broken up in 1811.
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:WPSHIPS utilities/data' not found. was a 10-gun Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:WPSHIPS utilities/data' not found. launched in 1815 that became a Post Office Packet Service packet, sailing out of Falmouth, Cornwall. She was sold in 1835.
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:WPSHIPS utilities/data' not found. was a wooden paddle sloop launched in 1846 and broken up in 1881.
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:WPSHIPS utilities/data' not found. was a composite paddle vessel launched in 1882 and sold in 1919.
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- HMS Sphinx was the name given to a naval accommodation camp in Alexandria, Egypt, from April 1941.[3]
Citations
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- ^ Demerliac (1996), p.69, #432.
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References
- Demerliac, Alain (1996) La Marine De Louis XVI: Nomenclature Des Navires Français De 1774 À 1792. (Nice: Éditions OMEGA). Template:ISBN
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