HMS Niger

Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Seven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Niger after the Niger River, whilst another was planned.

• Template:HMS was a 32-gun fifth rate launched in 1759, reduced to sixth rate, converted to a prison ship in 1810, and renamed Negro in 1813. She was sold in 1814.
• Template:HMS was a 38-gun fifth rate, launched in 1813 and broken up in 1820.
• Template:HMS was a wood screw sloop launched in 1846 and sold in 1869.
• Template:HMS was a composite paddle vessel launched in 1880, renamed Cockatrice in 1881, Moorhen in 1896, and sold in 1899.
• Template:HMS was a torpedo gunboat launched in 1892, converted to a minesweeper in 1909, and sunk in 1914 by the German submarine Template:Ship near Deal.
• Template:HMS was a Template:Sclass launched in 1936 and sunk by a mine near Iceland in 1942.
• HMS Niger was to have been an Template:Sclass. She was laid down in 1944, but was cancelled two months later.
• Template:HMS was an Algerine-class minesweeper, launched in 1945, and scrapped in 1966.

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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