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Several ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS ''Partridge'', after the bird. * The first ''Partridge'' was an 18 gun sloop launched at Dartmouth on 15 July 1809 and broken up in September 1816. * The second ''Partridge'' was a 10 gun ''Cherokee''-class brig-sloop launched at Plymouth Dockyard on 22 March 1822 and stranded aground off the Dutch island of Vlieland on 28 November 1824. * The third ''Partridge'' was another 10 gun ''Cherokee''-class brig-sloop, launched at Pembroke on 12 October 1829. Recommissioned as a coastguard watchvessel (''WV32'') on 25 May 1863 the ship was sold at Southampton on 2 February 1864. * The fourth ''Partridge'' was an ''Albacore''-class wooden screw gunboat launched at Nartham on 29 March 1856 and sold for breaking up on 8 September 1864. * The fifth ''Partridge'' was a composite screw gunboat launched at Devonport Dockyard on 10 May 1888 and sold in 1909. * The sixth ''Partridge'' was an Admiralty M class destroyer launched on 4 March 1916 and sunk by German destroyers in the North Sea on 12 December 1917. * The seventh ''Partridge'' was a P class destroyer launched at Govan on 5 August 1941 and sunk by the German submarine ''U-565'' commanded by Wilhelm Franken in the Mediterranean on 18 December 1942. * ''Partridge '' was a sloop ordered from J. I. Thorneycroft & Co on 9 October 1944 but cancelled in October 1945. ==References== * 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 Partridge」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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