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HMS Melita
List of ships with the same or similar names From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Three ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Melita, named after the island of Malta:
- HMS Melita (1888), launched in 1888 was a Mariner-class composite screw sloop, the only Royal Navy warship ever built in Malta. She swapped names with HMS Ringdove in 1915 and was sold as a salvage vessel to Falmouth Docks Board in 1920, when her name was changed to Ringdove's Aid. She was sold again in 1927 to the Liverpool & Glasgow Salvage Association, who changed her name to Restorer, and she was finally broken up in 1937.
- HMS Melita was launched in 1889 as the Redbreast-class composite screw gunboat HMS Ringdove. She became a salvage vessel in 1915 and was renamed HMS Melita (when the first Melita was renamed Ringdove). She was sold in 1920.
- HMS Melita (J289), launched in 1942, was an Algerine-class minesweeper, scrapped on 25 February 1959.
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See also
- HMS Malta, four ships of the Royal Navy named for the island of Malta.
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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