HMS Venturer
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Several ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Venturer.
- The first HMS Venturer was a 14 gun cutter purchased by the Royal Navy in February 1787 and named HMS Ranger. It was captured by the French Navy on 28 June 1794 near Brest. It was recaptured by the Royal Navy on 14 October 1797 and recommissioned into the navy as HMS Venturer. It was sold in February 1803 at Gibraltar.
- The second HMS Venturer was the 10-gun French schooner Nouvelle Enterprise captured by HMS Nimrod on 27 December 1802 in the West Indies. Commissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS Venturer, the ship was renamed HMS Theodocia in 1812 and sold in 1814.
- The third HMS Venturer was a V class submarine, launched in 1943 which sank two German submarines during the Second World War and was sold to the Norwegian Navy in 1946. Renamed HNoMS Utstein, the boat was scrapped in Sweden in 1964.
- A 105 foot coastal minesweeper was allocated to the Bristol Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Division and commissioned as HMS Venturer in 1948. Subsequent vessels operated by the division also bore this name until 1976, when the then current HMS Venturer reverted to her former name of HMS Hodgeston.[1]
- The most recent HMS Venturer launched in 1972 at Woolwich as the commercial trawler Suffolk Harvester. She was converted to a minesweeper and commisioned into the Severn RNVR on 25 November 1978. The ship, and her sister HMS St. David (originally Suffolk Conquest) were returned to their original owner in November 1983. They reverted to their former names and were converted into oil rig safety/standby vessels.[2]
[edit] References
- J. J. Colledge, Ships of the Royal Navy, Greenhill Books, 1987.
