HMS Nile

Three ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Nile, after the Battle of the Nile in 1798:

• HMS Nile (1806) was a 12-gun cutter purchased in 1806. This may have been the former hired armed cutter Nile. HMS Nile was put up for sale in October 1810,^[1] and sold, but the purchaser rejected her; she was subsequently broken up in 1811.
• HMS Nile (1839) was a 92-gun second-rate ship of the line launched in 1839. She was converted to screw propulsion in 1854, renamed HMS Conway in 1876 whilst on loan as a training ship, and was burnt in 1956.
• HMS Nile (1888) was a Trafalgar-class ironclad launched in 1888 and sold in 1912.

In addition, the Royal Navy base at Ras el-Tin Point, Alexandria, Egypt, which operated between April 1939 and June 1946, was officially referred to as HMS Nile.

See also

• Hired armed cutter Nile
• Hired armed lugger Nile

Citations

1. "No. 16410". The London Gazette. 2 October 1810. p. 1564.

References

• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.