Nine ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Lily or HMS Lilly:[Note 1]
English ship Lily (1642), of 12 guns and 110 tons, purchased in 1642 and under the command of Captain Isaias Blowfield when she was wrecked in September 1653 when she was driven ashore in a storm.[1]
English ship Lily (1672), a 6-gun
sloop launched in 1672 and under the command of Captain William Sherwin when she foundered in 1674.[2]
HMS Lily, a 16-gun
brig-sloop. She was formerly the brig Sir Charles Grey, purchased in 1795 and named
HMS Spencer. She was renamed Lily (or Lilly) in 1800, captured by the French privateer Dame Ambert in 1804, and renamed Général Ernouf. She exploded and was lost in 1805 during an engagement with
HMS Renard.
HMS Lily (1915), an
Acacia-class sloop launched in 1915, converted to a depot ship in 1923, renamed Vulcan II. She was renamed Adamant II in 1930 and sold the same year.
Notes
^"Lilly" was used as a largely interchangeable spelling variant
Hepper, David J. (1994). British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail, 1650-1859. Rotherfield: Jean Boudriot.
ISBN0-948864-30-3.
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