HMS Experiment

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Thirteen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Experiment:

• HMS Experiment (1664) was a double hulled sloop built in 1664 and lost in 1687.
• HMS Experiment (1667) was a 4-gun sloop built in 1667 and on the Navy List until 1682.
• HMS Experiment (1689) was a 32-gun fifth rate frigate built in 1689, rebuilt in 1727 and broken up in 1738. Her logbook survives.^[1]
• HMS Experiment (1740) was a 24-gun sixth rate, launched in 1740 and sold in 1763. She captured the French privateer Telemaque in 1757^[2] and had a young John Jervis serving on board her.^[3]
• HMS Experiment (1765) was a storeship, purchased in 1765 and sold in 1768.
• HMS Experiment (1772) was a gunvessel, built in 1772. Her fate is unknown.
• HMS Experiment (1774) was a 50-gun fourth rate launched in 1774. She was captured by the French ship Sagittaire off the North American coast in 1778.
• HMS Experiment (1781) was a 14-gun brig-sloop purchased in 1781 and sold in 1785.
• HMS Experiment (1784) was a 44-gun fifth rate launched in 1784, used as a storeship from 1795 and for harbour service from 1805. She was sold in 1836.
• HMS Experiment (1793) was a 10-gun lugger launched in 1793 and captured by the Spanish in the Mediterranean in 1796.
• HMS Experiment (1794) was a fire ship purchased in 1794 and sold in 1801.
• HMS Experiment (1799) was a 2-gun gunvessel launched in 1799, gone from the Navy List by 1809.
• HMS Experiment (1838) was a wood paddle sloop serving on the Canadian Lakes. She was purchased in 1838 and sold in 1848.

[edit] References

• Colledge, J. J. and Warlow, Ben (2006). Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy, Rev. ed., London: Chatham. ISBN 9781861762818. OCLC 67375475.