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Ten ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS ''Scorpion'' after the carnivorous arthropod, or the scorpion, a ballistic weapon in use in the Roman army: * was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1746. She sank in the Irish Sea in 1762. * was a 16-gun ''Echo''-class sloop launched in 1785 and sold in 1802. She apparently became the whaler ''Scorpion'', and worked in the South Seas fisheries until the Spaniards captured her in 1808. * was a gunvessel purchased in 1794 and sold in 1804 * was a launched in 1803 and sold in 1819. * was a brig-sloop launched in 1832, converted to a survey vessel in 1848 and on loan to the Thames Police from 1858. She was broken up in 1874. * was a turret ship, one of two being constructed for the Confederate States of America under the cover story that they were intended for Egypt; the British Government seized them before they were launched in 1863. ''Scorpion'' sank in 1903 while being towed for scrapping. * was a launched in 1910 and sold for scrapping in 1921. * was a river gunboat launched in 1937 and sunk by Japanese destroyers in Banka Strait in 1942. * was an S-class destroyer launched in 1942 and sold to the Netherlands in 1945. * was a destroyer launched in 1946 and scrapped in 1971. ==British privateer== *''Scorpion'', a ship of 343 tons burthen (bm), Dagg master, received a letter of marque on 23 May 1803. She was armed with twenty 6-pounder guns, but carried a crew of only 25 men.〔Letter of Marque, 1793-1815; ()〕 In January 1804 she captured two French whalers, the ''Cyrus'' and the ''Ganges'', and took them into St Helena.〔''Lloyd's List'', no.4424,() - accessed 16 October 2014.〕 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 Scorpion」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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