HMS Investigator

The name HMS Investigator contributed ten different British ships. One of them but was renamed before the launch. The prefix HMS - sometimes written with punctuation as HMS - Is an acronym or abbreviation for His Majesty's Ship ( His Majesty's Ship ), or Her Majesty's Ship ( Her Majesty's ship) and identifies the ship as part of the British Royal Navy.

List of vessels

  • HMS Investigator (1798 ) was originally a 22- gun armed ship, which in 1798 purchased and put into service under the name of HMS Xenophon. 1801 the ship was renamed HMS Investigator and used as a research vessel. 1872 was scrapped.
  • HMS Investigator (1811 ) was a brig of 16 guns, which was launched in 1811 as a research vessel was used. In 1837 the ship was used as a police ship and scrapped in 1857.
  • HMS Investigator (1823 ) was a sloop which was purchased in 1823 for research in Indian waters. Your fate is not known.
  • HMS Investigator (1848 ) was a research vessel that was purchased in 1848 and was used in the search for the Franklin expedition. 1853 the ship was left in the ice of the Canadian Arctic and rediscovered in 2010.
  • HMS Investigator (1861 ) was a steamer of wood, which was used to explore the rivers in Gabon and Niger in Africa. He ran in 1861 from the pile and was sold in 1869 to the authorities in Lagos ( Nigeria)
  • HMS Investigator (1881 ) was a wooden paddle steamer that was used for research purposes in river basins. In 1881, he was launched and was sold in 1906.
  • HMS Investigator (1888 ) was a steamer, which should serve research purposes. Originally HMS Investigator called, he was in 1887, ie renamed or before the launch, on HMS Research.
  • HMS Investigator ( 1903) was originally a steam-powered yacht, which the railroad tycoon William Kissam Vanderbilt was under the name of Consuelo. In 1903 she was purchased by the Royal Navy and under the name of HMS Investigator converted into a research vessel. This was renamed in 1904 in HMS Sealark and came for hydrographic tasks in China and Australia for use. In 1919 it was sold to a commercial company.
  • HMS Investigator (1907 ) was a research vessel with Launched in 1907, it was sold in 1934.
  • HMIS Investigator (1934 ) was a research ship of the Royal Indian Navy, which in 1934 was purchased. In 1951 it was sold.

Ships with names without the prefix HMS Investigator

  • HMS Trent K243 1951 renamed Investigator and served as a research vessel for the Indian Navy.
HMS Investigator (1798) HMS Investigator (1848) Franklin's lost expedition
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