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Eight ships of Britain's Royal Navy have been named HMS ''Eclipse'': *, a 12-gun, 169 ton gunboat launched at Blackwall on 29 March 1797. She was offered for sale in August 1802, and was sold in October. *, a 4-gun ''Vesuve''-class French brig originally called ''Volage'', and then ''Venteux'', captured by the Royal Navy 1803.〔Winfield and Roberts (2015), p. 214.〕 Added to Royal Navy as ''Eagle'' soon after capture, her name was in 1804 to ''Eclipse''. Sold on 7 April 1807. * an 18-gun ''Cruizer''-class brig sloop launched at Dover on 4 August 1807 and sold on 31 August 1817. *, a 10-gun ''Cherokee''-class brig sloop sold in 10 November 1863. *, a 700-ton wooden screw sloop launched at Millwall on 18 September 1860 and broken up in July 1867. *, a 1,267-ton ''Eclipse''-class wooden screw sloop originally named ''Sappho'' but renamed before her launch at Sheerness on 14 November 1867 and lent to the War Department for use as a storage hulk between 1888 and 1892. Sold in 1921. *, the lead ship of her class of cruisers. Launched at Portsmouth on 19 July 1894 and sold in August 1921. *, an E and F class destroyer launched at Denny on 12 April 1934 and sunk by a mine in the Aegean Sea on 24 October 1943. ==Citations and references== ;Citations ;References * *Winfield, Rif & Stephen S Roberts (2015) ''French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786 - 1861: Design Construction, Careers and Fates''. (Seaforth Publishing). ISBN 9781848322042 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 Eclipse」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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