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HMS Sepoy

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 27, 2021
Entity authorityQ5634283 ↗
Source-derived summary

Two ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Sepoy, whilst another two were planned but never entered service:

HMS Sepoy was to have been a wooden Rifleman-class screw gunvessel. She was ordered in 1846 but was cancelled in 1849.

HMS Sepoy (1856) was a wooden Albacore-class screw gunboat launched in 1856 and broken up in 1868.

HMS Sepoy (1918) was an S-class destroyer launched in 1918 and sold in 1932.

HMS Sepoy was to have been a Catherine-class minesweeper. She was launched in 1943 but retained by the US Navy as USS Dextrous.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “HMS Sepoy” is wikimedia disambiguation page. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Sepoy, Wikimedia and disambiguation, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1846, 1849, 1856, 1868—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Sepoy, Wikimedia and disambiguation is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “HMS Sepoy” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.