HMS Grappler

Five ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Grappler:

* HMS Grappler (1797) was a 12-gun Courser-class gun-brig launched in 1797 and wrecked and burnt in 1803.[1]
* HMS Grappler (1845) was an iron paddle vessel launched in 1845 and sold in 1850.
* HMS Grappler (1856) was a mortar vessel launched in 1856, renamed MV18 later that year, and hulked in 1866. She was sold in 1896.
* HMS Grappler (1856) was an Albacore-class gunboat launched in 1856 and sold into mercantile service in 1868.
* HMS Grappler (1880) was a Banterer-class composite screw gunboat launched in 1880. She became a boom defence vessel in 1904 and was sold in 1907.

## See also

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HCS Grappler (1804) \- a 14-gun brig belonging to the Bombay Marine of the British East India Company, launched in 1804, captured in 1806, recaptured in 1809, and that then disappears from the records.

## Sources

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1. ^ Troude, p.306

## References

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* Troude, Onésime-Joachim (1867). Batailles navales de la France (in French). Vol. 3\. Challamel ainé.

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