// Workers AI · dad joke modeWhy was HMS Nestor's captain sad? He was having a ship-wrecked day.
Three ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Nestor, after Nestor, a figure in Greek mythology:
- HMS Nestor (1781), a 28-gun sixth rate, formerly the French privateer Franklin, of Dunkirk. Franklin was under the command of an American captain, Bennet Negus, and cruised between April and June 1781,[1] taking several prizes, before Ramillies and Ulysses captured her; she was sold in 1783.
- HMS Nestor (1915), an Admiralty M-class destroyer launched in 1915 and sunk during the Battle of Jutland in 1916.
- HMAS Nestor (G02), an N-class destroyer launched in 1940. She was used by the Royal Australian Navy though she remained British property. She was sunk in 1942.
Citations
[edit]- ↑ Demerliac (1996), p.176, #1707.
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.
- Demerliac, Alain (1996) La Marine De Louis XVI: Nomenclature Des Navires Français De 1774 À 1792. (Nice: Éditions OMEGA). ISBN 2-906381-23-3
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