HMS Abundance
Two ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Abundance:
- HMS Abundance (1799) was a storeship launched and purchased in 1799 and sold in 1823.
- HMS Abundance was an iron screw storeship purchased in 1855 as HMS Alfred (1855), renamed HMS Abundance later that year and sold in 1856.
See also
- HMS L'Abondance was a French storeship built by Jean-Joseph Ginoux, and launched 16 September 1780.[1] She was captured from the French in 1781 and carried as a sixth rate of 28 guns (24 x 9-pounder and 4 x 4-pounder guns). Lieutenant N. Phillips commissioned her in April 1783 and on 23 May sailed for North America.[2] She made several trips carrying black loyalists to Halifax. In November, she evacuated the last group, some 80 members of a unit of black loyalists, the Black Brigade, from New York.[3] She was sold in 1784.
Citations
- ^ Demerliac (1996), p.102, #702.
- ^ "NMM, vessel ID 379275" (PDF). Warship Histories, vol iv. National Maritime Museum. Retrieved 30 July 2011.
- ^ Finkelman (2006), Vol. 2, pp.139-40.
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. (Nice: Éditions OMEGA). ISBN 2-906381-23-3
- Finkelman, Paul (2006) Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895:From the Colonial Period to the Age of Frederick Douglass (Oxford University Press). ISBN 9780195167771
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