HMS North Star
Three ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS North Star, named after the pole star:
- HMS North Star (1810) was a 20-gun sixth rate launched in 1810. She was sold in 1817 and became the mercantile Columbo.
- HMS North Star (1824) was a 28-gun sixth rate launched in 1824. She was broken up in 1860.
- HMS North Star II, built in 1893 as the steam yacht Venetia, used as an armed yacht 1915–19.[citation needed]
- HMS North Star (1916) was an Admiralty M-class destroyer launched in 1916. She was sunk in 1918 by coastal artillery near Zeebrugge.
References
[edit]- Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
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