HMS Badger

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Eight ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Badger, after the Eurasian Badger:

  • HMS Badger was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1745 and lost in 1762.
  • HMS Badger was a 14-gun brig, purchased from civilian service in 1776, where she had been named Pitt. She was condemned in 1777.
  • HMS Badger was a brig purchased in 1777 and sold in 1784.
  • HMS Badger was a 3-gun gunvessel, formerly a Dutch hoy, purchased in 1794 and sold in 1804.
  • HMS Badger was 10-gun Cherokee class brig-sloop launched in 1808. She was used as a mooring vessel from 1835, was beached in 1860 and broken up in 1864.
  • HMS Badger was a wood screw gunboat launched in 1854. She was to have been named HMS Ranger, but was renamed prior to her launch. She was broken up in 1864.
  • HMS Badger was an Ant class iron screw gunboat launched in 1872 and sold in 1908.
  • HMS Badger was an Acheron class torpedo boat destroyer launched in 1911 and sold in 1921.
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