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Five ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS ''Lurcher'' * was a 6-gun cutter, previously the French ''Comtesse d'Ayen''. She was captured in 1761 and sold in 1763. * was a 6-gun cutter launched in 1763 and sold in 1771. * was an 8-gun cutter launched in 1774 and sold in 1778. *HMS ''Lurcher'' was a 12-gun cutter, originally launched in 1781 as . The French captured her in 1781 but the British recaptured her the next year and renamed HMS ''Lurcher'' in 1783. She reverted to HMS ''Pigmy'' later that year, and was wrecked in 1793. She was wrecked during the night in Bigbury Bay, Devon. When she started to break up Captain A. Pullibank permitted the crew to go ashore via a hawser. Ten of her crew of 60 were lost. The subsequent court martial acquitted her officers and crew of the loss.〔Gossett (1986), p.1.〕 * was an ''Acheron'' class destroyer launched in 1912 and sold in 1922. In addition to these vessels, His Majesty's 12-gun hired armed cutter ''Lurcher'' served the Royal Navy from 1795 until a French privateer captured her in 1801. ==References== ;Citations ;Bibliography * *Gossett, William Patrick (1986) ''The lost ships of the Royal Navy, 1793-1900''. (London: Mansell). ISBN 0-7201-1816-6 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 Lurcher」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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