HMS Ballahou

Two vessels of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Ballahou, or Ballahoo:

• Ballahou was a gun-boat first listed in 1800. She appears in the records as serving in the navy's Egyptian campaign (8 March to 2 September 1801). Her officers and crew therefore qualified for the clasp "Egypt" to the Naval General Service Medal that the Admiralty issued in 1847 to all surviving claimants.^[1]
• HMS Ballahoo was a 4-gun Ballahoo-class schooner launched in 1804 that an American privateer captured in 1814.

References

1. The London Gazette: no. 21077. pp. 791–792. 15 March 1850.

• 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. OCLC 67375475.