HMS Scorpion
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HMS Scorpion
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Eleven ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Scorpion after the carnivorous arthropod, or the scorpion, a ballistic weapon in use in the Roman army: HMS Scorpion (1746) was a 14-gun Merlin-class sloop launched in 1746. She sank in the Irish Sea in 1762.
HMS Scorpion (1771), originally the merchant ship Borryan, purchased in January 1771, and commissioned as the 8-gun fireship HMS Etna. She was converted to a sloop in August 1771 and renamed Scorpion, taking part in Tryon's raid in Connecti
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List of ships with the same or similar names
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2023-12-16T20:05:58Z
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