HMS Vengeance (1800) was a 38-gun
fifth rate captured from the French in 1800; accounts differ as to whether she was broken up in 1803 after grounding in 1801, or continued as a prison ship until 1814.
Vengeance was a gunboat that the garrison at Gibraltar launched in June 1782 during the
Great Siege of Gibraltar. She was one of 12. Each was armed with an 18-pounder gun, and received a crew of 21 men drawn from Royal Navy vessels stationed at Gibraltar.
Speedwell provided Vengeance's crew.[1]
Battle honours
Five
battle honours have been awarded to ships named HMS Vengeance.[2]
^Festberg, Alfred N. (1981). Heraldry in the Royal Australian Navy. Melbourne, VIC: Silverleaf Publishing. pp. 69–70.
ISBN9780949746009.
References
Drinkwater, John (1905) A History of the Siege of Gibraltar, 1779-1783: With a Description and Account of that Garrison from the Earliest Times. (J. Murray).
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