// Workers AI · dad joke modeWhy was HMS Saltash ship-shape? It had a salty dash.
Seven ships of the Royal Navy have been named Saltash:
- HMS Saltash (1732), a 14-gun sloop launched at Plymouth in 1732 and sold out of service in 1741.
- HMS Saltash (1741), a 14-gun sloop built at Rotherhithe in 1741 but wrecked off Portugal a year later.
- HMS Saltash (1742), a 14-gun sloop, built at Rotherhithe in 1742 and sunk off Beachy Head in 1746.
- HMS Saltash (1746), a 14-gun sloop built at Rotherhithe in 1746 and sold at the end of the Seven Years' War in 1763.
- HMS Saltash (1748), a storeship built in 1748 and wrecked in 1752.
- HMS Saltash (1809), a lighter built in 1809 and sold in 1831.
- HMS Saltash (J62), a Hunt-class minesweeper of the Aberdare sub-class built for the Royal Navy during World War I and sold for scrap in 1947.
Fiction
[edit]- HMS Saltash, a River-class frigate in the 1951 novel The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat.
References
[edit]- Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2010) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of All Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (4th Rev ed.). Newbury, Berkshire: Casemate. ISBN 978-1-935149-07-1. OCLC 603386630.
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