HMS Boxer

Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Several ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Boxer, named after the competitor in a boxing match.

• Template:HMS was an Template:Sclass launched in 1797 and sold in 1809.
• Template:HMS was a Template:Sclass launched in 1812 that the United States Navy captured in 1813 during the War of 1812.
• There was a Boxer that on 8 April 1814 participated in boat service that resulted in the destruction of 27 vessels and a quantity of stores up the Connecticut River and for which the Royal Navy issued a clasp to the Naval General Service Medal. However, this was a typo, as the vessel present was the Template:HMS.
• Template:HMS was a paddle steamer formerly called Ivanhoe bought by the Royal Navy in 1837 and sold in 1841.
• Template:HMS was to have been a Template:Sclass. Construction was started in 1846 but she was cancelled before being completed.
• Template:HMS was a Template:Sclass which was launched in 1855 and broken up at Malta in 1865.
• Template:HMS was a Template:Sclass launched in 1868 and sold for scrap in 1887.
• Template:HMS was an Template:Sclass launched in 1894 and sunk in a collision with SS St Patrick on 8 February 1918.
• Template:HMS was an LST that served during the Allied invasion of Italy in World War II. The vessel was later used as a fighter direction ship and after the war, a radar training vessel.
• Template:HMS was a Type 22 frigate, launched in 1981, paid off in 1999 and sunk as a target in August 2004.

Battle honours

Ships named Boxer have earned the following battle honours:

• Crimea, 1855
• Sicily, 1943
• Salerno, 1944
• Anzio, 1944

See also

• Template:USS

References

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| last1 = Colledge
| first1 = J. J. 
| author-link1= J. J. Colledge
| last2 = Warlow
| first2 = Ben
| date = 2006
| orig-date = 1969
| title = Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of All Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy from the 15th Century to the Present
| edition = Rev.
| location = London
| publisher = Chatham Publishing
| isbn = 978-1-86176-281-8
| OCLC = 67375475

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