HMS Scorpion
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Ten vessels of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Scorpion after the carnivorous arthropod
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Scorpions are predatory arthropod animals of the order Scorpiones within the class Arachnida. They have eight legs and are easily recognized by the pair of grasping claws and the narrow, segmented tail, often carried in a characteristic forward curve over the back, ending with a venomous stinger...
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- HMS Scorpion (1746)HMS Scorpion (1746)HMS Scorpion was a 14-gun two-masted sloop of the Royal Navy, built by Wyatt and Major at Bucklers Hard on the Beaulieu River in Hampshire, England and launched on 8 July 1746.She foundered in the Irish Sea in September 1762.-References:...
, a 14-gun sloop which sank in the irish SeaIrish SeaThe Irish Sea separates the islands of Ireland and Great Britain. It is connected to the Celtic Sea in the south by St George's Channel, and to the Atlantic Ocean in the north by the North Channel. Anglesey is the largest island within the Irish Sea, followed by the Isle of Man...
in 1762. - HMS Scorpion (1785), a 16-gun sloop sold in 1802.
- HMS Scorpion (1794), a gunvessel purchased in 1794 and sold in 1804
- HMS Scorpion (1803)HMS Scorpion (1803)HMS Scorpion was a Royal Navy Cruizer-class brig-sloop built by John King at Dover and launched in 1803. She was the first of the class to be built since the launching of Cruizer in 1797...
, a Cruizer-class brig-sloop sold in 1819. - HMS Scorpion (1832), a Cherokee-class brig-sloop, converted to a survey vessel in 1848 and on loan to the Thames Police from 1858. Broken up 1874.
- HMS Scorpion (1863)HMS Scorpion (1863)HMS Scorpion, an ironclad turret ship built at Birkenhead, England, was one of two sister ships that the Confederate States of America secretly ordered from the Laird shipyard in 1862. To conceal her true ownership, all concerned endorsed the fiction that she was being constructed as the Egyptian...
, one of a pair of turret ships constructed for the Confederate States of America, under the cover story that they were intended for Egypt, but seized by the British Government before launch. Sunk whilst being towed to the USA in 1903, where she was to be scrapped. - HMS Scorpion (1910)HMS Scorpion (1910)HMS Scorpion was one of sixteen s in service with the Royal Navy in the First World War. She was built by Fairfields Govan shipyards on the Clyde and was commissioned on 30 August 1910...
, a Beagle-classBeagle class destroyerThe Beagle class was a class of sixteen destroyers of the Royal Navy, all ordered under the 1908-1909 Programme and launched in 1909 and 1910...
destroyer which took part in the World War 1 Dardanelles Campaign, and sold for scrapping in 1921. - HMS Scorpion (1937), a river gunboat sunk by Japanese destroyers in Banka Strait in 1942.
- HMS Scorpion (1942), an "S" class destroyer built by Cammell LairdCammell LairdCammell Laird, one of the most famous names in British shipbuilding during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, came about following the merger of Laird, Son & Co. of Birkenhead and Johnson Cammell & Co. of Sheffield at the turn of the twentieth century.- Founding of the business :The Company...
, and sold to the Netherlands in 1945. - HMS Scorpion (D64)HMS Scorpion (D64)HMS Scorpion was a Weapon-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy.Originally named HMS Centaur, the ship was renamed Tomahawk and finally Scorpion before her launch....
, a Weapon-classWeapon class destroyerThe Weapon class was a class of destroyers built for the British Royal Navy towards the end of World War II. They were the smaller counterpart to the Battle class and were the first new destroyer designs for the Royal Navy since the Second World War Emergency Programme...
destroyer launched in 1946 and scrapped in 1971.
Fictional vessels:
- HMS Scorpion, a fictional submarine featured in the British 2006 TV film Ghostboat