HMS Racoon

Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Racoon, after the raccoon:

• HMS Racoon (1782) was a 14-gun brig-sloop. In 1782 she was under the command of Edmund Nagle.^[1] The French frigates Aigle and Gloire captured her off the Delaware River in September 1782. The very next day a small British squadron, led by Captain G.K. Elphinston in , chased the three vessels up the river. The British were able to capture Aigle, and with her all of Racoon's crew.^[2] Racoon herself escaped and was last listed at Rochefort in 1785.^[3]
• HMS Racoon (1795) was a 16-gun brig-sloop launched in 1795 and broken up in 1806.
• HMS Racoon (1808) was an 18-gun sloop launched in 1808. She was used as a convict ship from 1819 and was sold in 1838.
• HMS Racoon (1857) was a wood screw sloop launched in 1857 and broken up in 1877.
• HMS Racoon (1887) was a torpedo cruiser launched in 1887 and sold in 1905.
• was a Beagle-class destroyer launched in 1910 and wrecked in 1918.

See also[]

• HMCS Raccoon was the former civilian yacht Halonia before being commissioned into the RCN in 1940. U-165 sank her in 1942.

Citations[]

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.
• Demerliac, Alain (1996). La Marine de Louis XVI: Nomenclature des Navires Français de 1774 à 1792 (in French). Éditions Ancre. ISBN 9782906381230. OCLC 468324725.

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