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Several vessels of the Royal Navy have been named HMS ''Nimble''. * was a 12-gun cutter that was wrecked in 1781 with the loss of 28 men.〔Hepper (1794), p. 61.〕 * was a purchased 12-gun cutter that ran aground in 1808 in Stangate Creek in the Medway and was then sold.〔Gossett (1986), p.69.〕 * was a ''Nimble''-class 10-gun cutter commissioned under Lieutenant John Reynolds in 1812 that was wrecked on a sunken rock a half-dozen miles from the Sälö Beacon, Sweden, during a violent storm in the Kattegat on 6 October 1812. Apparently, insufficient allowance had been made for the strong currents.〔Gossett (1986), p.85.〕〔Hepper (1994), p.142.〕 * was a purchased 12-gun cutter that was sold in 1816. *HMS ''Nimble'' whose crew dislodged the Logan Rock whilst stationed off Land's End in April 1824. * was a 5-gun schooner employed off Cuba in the suppression of the slave trade until she was wrecked on 4 November 1834.〔Gossett (1986), p.105.〕 * was a gunvessel of 5 guns that had a relatively uneventful career before she became a drill ship for the Royal Naval Reserve in 1890 and was disposed of in 1906. * was a rescue tug launched in 1942 and sold in 1968.〔(Uboat.net )〕 ==Related vessels== There was a revenue cutter ''Nimble'', of Deal, that the French captured and that became the French privateer ''Dunqerquois''. The hired armed cutter ''Princess Augusta'' destroyed her on 5 March 1808. 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 Nimble」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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