HMS Espion

Three ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Espion, meaning "spy". A fourth vessel was going to bear the name but was given ano0ther name instead:

Notes

  1. The London Gazette: no. 12277. p. 1. 9 March 1782.
  2. Hepper (1794), p.77.
  3. The London Gazette: no. 13757. p. 207. 3 March 1795.
  4. Clayton (2014), p.226.
  5. Hepper (1994), p.93.

References

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