HMS Spanker

Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Four vessels of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Spanker:

• Template:HMS, a 24-gun floating battery of 500 tons (builder's measurement) launched at Deptford in 1794, and deleted from the Navy List on 31 August 1810.
• Template:HMS, an Template:Sclass wooden screw gunboat in service from 1856 to 1874.
• Template:HMS, a Template:Sclass launched in 1889 and converted to a minesweeper in 1909. Sold for scrap in March 1920.
• Template:HMS, an Template:Sclass launched in 1943 and decommissioned in 1947. She was sold to the Belgian Navy in 1953 and renamed De Brouwer. Broken up at Ghent in 1968.

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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