HMS Snap

There have been five ships named HMS Snap in the Royal Navy:

• HMS Snap (1808), a 16-gun brig-sloop, formerly the French brig Palinure, captured in 1808 and broken up in 1811.
• HMS Snap (1812), a 12-gun gun-brig launched in 1812, converted to a survey ship in 1823 and a powder hulk in 1827. Sold in 1832.
• HMS Snap (1856), a transport, the former slaver Caicque, captured in 1847 and sold in 1848.
• HMS Snap (1881), a wooden Dapper-class gunboat launched in 1855, sold in 1868 to Japan and renamed Kaku Ten Kan.
• HMS Snap (1872), an Ant-class gunboat launched in 1872 and sold in 1909.

• HMS Snapdragon
• HMS Snapper

• 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.

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