// Workers AI · dad joke modeWhy was HMS Amsterdam a great ship? It had a dam good crew.
Two ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Amsterdam, after the city of Amsterdam:
- HMS Amsterdam (1804) was the Dutch frigate Proserpine, launched in 1801, that the British captured in 1804 when they captured Suriname.[1] She was sold in 1815.
- HMS Amsterdam (1914) was a merchant vessel launched in 1894 and taken into service in 1914 as an armed boarding steamer. She was returned in September 1919.
See also
[edit]Citations
[edit]- ↑ "No. 15712". The London Gazette. 16 June 1804. p. 758.
References
[edit]Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of All Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy from the 15th Century to the Present (3rd Rev ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475.
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