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Sixteen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS ''Viper'', or HMS ''Vipere'', after the members of the Viperidae family: * was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1746. She was converted into a fireship in 1755 and renamed HMS ''Lightning''. She was sold in 1762. * was a 10-gun sloop launched in 1756. She was wrecked in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence in bad weather while escorting a convoy in 1779. * was the Massachusetts privateer schooner ''Viper'' that captured on 26 September 1776. She was purchased in 1777 and broken up in New York in 1779. *HMS ''Viper'' was a 14-gun cutter purchased in 1780 as ''Greyhound''; in 1781 she was renamed ''Viper''. She was sold in 1809.〔Winfield (2008), p.353.〕 * was a 6-gun galley, the former South Carolina navy's ''Rutledge'', captured on 4 November 1779 at Tybee and listed until 1785. * was a 4-gun xebec, formerly a French privateer. She was captured in 1793, but foundered in Hyères Bay later that year during the evacuation of Toulon.〔Hepper (1994), p.75.〕 * was a 16-gun brig-sloop, formerly a French privateer, which captured in 1794. ''Vipere'' foundered in the estuary of the River Shannon on 2 January 1797 with the loss of her entire crew of 120 men.〔Hepper (1994), p.83.〕 * was a 4-gun Dutch hoy purchased in 1794 and broken up in 1802. * was a 4-gun schooner purchased in 1807 that disappeared in 1809 while sailing from Cadiz to Gibraltar and was presumed to have foundered with all hands.〔Hepper (1994), p.128.〕 * was an 8-gun cutter launched in 1809 as the civilian vessel ''Niger''. She was purchased that same year and sold in 1814. * was a 10-gun gun-brig purchased in 1810. She was possibly renamed ''Mohawk'' later that year, and is not present on the navy list of 1811. *HMS ''Viper'' - tender to , c. 1820-21. * was a 6-gun schooner launched in 1831 and broken up in 1851. * was an ''Arrow''-class wooden-hulled screw gunvessel launched in 1854 and sold in 1862. * was an iron armoured gunvessel launched in 1865. She was used for harbour service from 1890, as a tank vessel from 1901 and was sold in 1908. * was a ''Viper''-class destroyer launched in 1899 and wrecked in 1901. ==Other vessels== HM Customs and Excise and the Bombay Marine of the East India Company also had cutters named ''Viper''. 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 Viper」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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