HMS Hotspur
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Four ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Hotspur after the nickname of Sir Henry Percy:
- The first Hotspur was a 36-gun fifth-rate in service from 1810 to 1821.
- The second Hotspur was a 46-gun fifth-rate launched in 1828, a chapel hulk after 1859, renamed Monmouth in 1868, and sold in 1902.
- The third Hotspur was an armoured ram launched in 1870 and sold in 1904.
- The fourth Hotspur (H01) was an H-class destroyer launched in 1936 and transferred to the Dominican Republic in 1948.
Fictional ships
- A Hotspur appears in the Horatio Hornblower novels, armed with eighteen 9 pounder cannons.
- A Hotspur appears in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's short story The Adventure of the Gloria Scott.
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