HMS Sapphire
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HMS Sapphire has been the name of at least two Royal Navy warships
- The first Sapphire was a 32 gun, Fifth-rate sailing frigate, of the Royal Navy in Newfoundland to protect the English migratory fishery. The vessel was trapped in Bay Bulls harbour by four French naval vessels led by Jacques-François de Brouillan. In order to avoid capture, the English scuttled the vessel in 60 feet of water on September 11, 1696. In 1975 she was declared a Provincial Historic Site.
- the second Sapphire was a third class cruiser of the Gem or Topaze class built by Palmer, at Jarrow.
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