HMS Braak

Two ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Braak, the Dutch word for "break-through" (braak) or beagle (brak):

HMS Braak was an 18-gun brig-sloop seized from the Dutch in 1795 and lost when she capsized in 1798.
HMS Braak was a 24-gun sixth rate, formerly the Dutch Minerva. She was captured in 1799 and sold at Deptford in 1802.^[1]

Citations

↑ The London Gazette: no. 15509. p. 904. 24 August 1804.

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