HMS Eclair
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Five ships of the Royal Navy
have been named HMS Eclair:
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have been named HMS Eclair:
- The first Eclair was a 22-gun sixth-rateSixth-rateSixth rate was the designation used by the Royal Navy for small warships mounting between 20 and 24 nine-pounder guns on a single deck, sometimes with guns on the upper works and sometimes without.-Rating:...
post-ship captured by HMS Leda from the French in 1793; she was sold in 1806. - The second Eclair was a 3-gun gunvessel captured from the French in 1795, and hulked in 1802.
- The third EclairHMS Eclair (1801)HMS Eclair was a French schooner captured in 1801. The British took her into service under her French name and armed her with twelve 12-pounder carronades. In 1804 she engaged in a noteworthy, albeit indecisive single ship action with the 22-gun French privateer Grande Decide. In 1809 she was...
was a 10-gun schoonerSchoonerA schooner is a type of sailing vessel characterized by the use of fore-and-aft sails on two or more masts with the forward mast being no taller than the rear masts....
that HMS Garland captured off GuadeloupeGuadeloupeGuadeloupe is an archipelago located in the Leeward Islands, in the Lesser Antilles, with a land area of 1,628 square kilometres and a population of 400,000. It is the first overseas region of France, consisting of a single overseas department. As with the other overseas departments, Guadeloupe...
in 1801; Eclair was renamed Pickle in 1809 and sold in 1818. - The fourth Eclair was an 18-gun launched in 1807 and broken up in 1831.
- The fifth Eclair, was originally the 6-gun sloop Infernal. Infernal was renamed Eclair in 1844 but then renamed Rosamund in 1846; Rosamund became a floating factory in 1863 and was finally broken up in 1865.