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HMS Cheerful
List of ships with the same or similar names From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Four ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Cheerful, after the adjective describing a happy and optimistic state:
- HMS Cheerful (1806), a 12-gun cutter, launched in 1806 and sold in 1816.
- HMS Cheerful (1856), a wooden Cheerful-class gunboat launched at Deptford in 1856 and broken up in 1869.
- HMS Cheerful (1897) a three funnel, 30-knot destroyer launched in 1897 and sunk in 1917 by a mine off the Shetland Islands.
- HMS Cheerful (J388) an Algerine-class minesweeper, launched in 1944 and broken up in 1963.
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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.
This article includes a list of ships with the same or similar names. If an internal link for a specific ship led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ship article, if one exists.
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