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Eight ships and one shore establishment of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS ''Badger'', after the Eurasian badger: Ships * was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1745 and lost in 1762. * was a 14-gun brig, purchased from civilian service in 1776, where she had been named ''Pitt''. She was condemned in 1777. * was a brig purchased in 1777 and sold in 1784. * was a 4-gun gunvessel, formerly a Dutch hoy, purchased in 1794 and sold in 1802. * was 10-gun ''Cherokee''-class brig-sloop launched in 1808. She was used as a mooring vessel from 1835, was beached in 1860 and broken up in 1864. * was a wood screw gunboat launched in 1854. She was to have been named HMS ''Ranger'', but was renamed prior to her launch. She was broken up in 1864. * was an ''Ant''-class iron screw gunboat launched in 1872 and sold in 1908. * was an ''Acheron''-class torpedo boat destroyer launched in 1911 and sold in 1921. Shore establishment * HMS ''Badger'' was commissioned in 1939 as the headquarters of the Flag Officer In Charge, Harwich. The site was decommissioned in 1946, but the facility remained an emergency port control until 1992. Hired armed vessels * His Majesty's hired armed cutter ''Badger'' shared in the prize money for Dutch vessels captured at the Vlieter Incident on 30 August 1799. *His Majesty's hired armed cutter ''Badger'', of ten 6-pounder guns and 107 tons (bm), served the Royal Navy under contract between 16 November 1811 and 13 May 1814.〔Winfield (2008), p. 395.〕 Excise cutter * His Majesty's Excise Cutter ''Badger'' was recorded as capturing the French privateer lugger ''Calaifen'' between Folkstone and Dungeness on 5 December 1798. * His Majesty's Excise Cutter ''Badger'' brought into Yarmouth on about 16 December 1803 a French privateer armed with one swivel gun and having a crew of 35 men.〔(''Lloyd's List'', no. 4931. )〕 Subterranean vessel * During the summer of 2012, the inflatable "HMS Badger 1" was utilised by a group of British cavers to cross various flooded stretches of caves on the Vercors Plateau of France. The vessel appears to have been retired from cave exploration, however its operators have yet to comment on whether a "HMS Badger 2" could be launched on the Vercors or in a similar environment in the future. Replica * HMS ''Badger'' is a 35 ft replica gunboat, converted from a Great Lakes lifeboat and launched in 2001. She operates from Penetanguishene on the Canadian side of Lake Huron. ==Notes== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「HMS Badger」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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