HMS Trusty

Five ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Trusty:

• HMS Trusty was a 50-gun fourth rate launched in 1782, used as a troopship from 1799 and a prison ship from 1809, and broken up in 1815. Because Trusty served in the navy's Egyptian campaign (8 March to 2 September 1801), her officers and crew qualified for the clasp "Egypt" to the Naval General Service Medal, which the Admiralty issued in 1847 to all surviving claimants.^[1]
• HMS Trusty was an Aetna-class ironclad floating battery launched in 1855 and broken up in 1864.
• HMS Trusty was a tug launched in 1866, renamed in 1917 as HMS Trustful and broken up in 1920.
• HMS Trusty was an S-class destroyer launched in 1918 and broken up in 1936.
• HMS Trusty was a T-class submarine launched in 1941 and broken up in 1947.

Sources

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

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. OCLC 67375475.