HMS Scorpion

Eleven ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Scorpion after the carnivorous arthropod, or the scorpion, a ballistic weapon in use in the Roman army:

Citations

  1. ^ Allen, Houghton Mifflin Company (1913). A Naval History of the American Revolution. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. pp. 2:398–399.
  2. ^ Cray, Robert E. (1999). "Commemorating the Prison Ship Dead: Revolutionary Memory and the Politics of Sepulture in the Early Republic, 1776–1808". The William and Mary Quarterly. 56 (3): 565–90. doi:10.2307/2674561.

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