HMS Gipsy

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Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English HMS Gipsy (or Gipsey) has been the name of several Royal Navy ships:

  • Template:HMS, a schooner in service from 1799 to 1804 that captured several French privateers.
  • Template:HMS, a schooner purchased in Jamaica in 1804 and sold in 1808.
  • Template:HMS, a schooner tender launched in 1836 and sold in 1892.
  • Template:HMS, a Template:Sclass2 destroyer launched in 1897 and sold in 1921. The hull was used as a pontoon until at least 1937.
  • Template:HMS, a G-class destroyer launched in 1935 and mined on 21 November 1939 off Harwich.
  • Gypsy, the former Gravesend ferry Carlotta, requisitioned as a depot ship for the auxiliary patrol service. Bombed at Tower Pier, London in 1941

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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