HMS Lucifer

Six ships of the Royal Navy were named Lucifer:-

• , an 8-gun fireship purchased in frame at Rotherhithe, later renamed HMS Avenger, sold at New York City in 1783; sailed to London, and in 1784 became the mercantile Flora
• , a fireship, mercantile Elizabeth, sold at Deptford in 1784
• , an 8-gun bomb vessel, was built as Spring at Whitby in 1800 and sold to the Royal Navy shortly thereafter.^[1] The Royal Navy sold her in 1811.^[2]
• , a paddle gunvessel
• , a Laforey-class destroyer
• , a steamship

Citations and references[]

Citations

References

• Weatherill, Richard (1908). The ancient port of Whitby and its shipping. Whitby: Horne and Son.
• Winfield, Rif (2007). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1714–1792: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth. ISBN 978-1844157006.
• Winfield, Rif (2008). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-246-7.

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