HMS Gipsy

HMS Gipsy has been the name of several Royal Navy ships:

• Gipsy, a schooner in service from 1799 to 1804.
• , a schooner purchased in Jamaica in 1804 and sold in 1808.
• Gipsy, a schooner tender launched in 1836 and sold in 1892.
• HMS Gipsy (1897), a C-class destroyer launched in 1897 and sold in 1921. The hull was used as a pontoon until at least 1937.
• HMS Gipsy (H63), 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[]

• 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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