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Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Use British English Eight ships and one shore establishment of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Badger, after the Eurasian badger:

Ships

Shore establishment

  • Шаблон:HMS was commissioned in 1939 as the headquarters of the Flag Officer In Charge, Harwich. The site was decommissioned in 1946, but the facility remained an emergency port control until 1992.

Hired armed vessels

Excise cutter

Файл:The Badger Excise Cutter RMG PW7984.tiff
HMRC Badger (cutter, 1794) 10 guns, drawing published in 1796
  • His Majesty's Excise Cutter Badger was recorded as capturing the French privateer lugger Calaifen between Folkestone and Dungeness on 5 December 1798.[2]
  • His Majesty's Excise Cutter Badger brought into Yarmouth on about 16 December 1803 a French privateer armed with one swivel gun and having a crew of 35 men.[3]
  • His Majesty's Revenue cutter Badger captured the smuggling lugger Iris on 12 November 1819 for which her commander and crew received substantial prize money.[4]
  • His Majesty's Revenue cutter Badger captured the smuggler Vree Gebroeders a yawl-rigged cutter on 13 January 1823.[5]

Replica

  • HMS Badger is a 35 ft replica gunboat, converted from a Great Lakes lifeboat and launched in 2001. She operates from Penetanguishene on the Canadian side of Lake Huron.

Notes

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References

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