HMS Driver

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Two ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Driver:

  • was an 18-gun sloop launched in 1797, one of three ordered from builders in Bermuda (the others being and . Between 1822 and 1825 Driver served in the West Africa Squadron and succeeded in capturing a Spanish slave ship. Beginning in 1825 she was used as a convict ship, and was broken up in 1834.
  • HMS Driver (1840) was a wooden paddle sloop launched in 1840. She was wrecked in 1861 near Mariguana Island.

Source[]

  • 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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