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HMS Slaney

list of ships with the same or similar names

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ109570647 ↗
Source-derived summary

Three vessels of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Slaney:

HMS Slaney (1813) was a 20-gun Cyrus-class post ship launched in 1813. She was converted into a receiving ship in 1832 and was broken up at Bermuda in 1838.

HMS Slaney (1857) was an Algerine-class gunboat launched in 1857. She was wrecked in a typhoon off Hong Kong in 1870.

HMS Slaney (1877) was a Medina-class gunboat launched in 1877. She was converted into a diving tender in 1906 before being broken up in 1923.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “HMS Slaney” is list of ships with the same or similar names. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Slaney, list and ships, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1813, 1832, 1838, 1857—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Slaney, list and ships is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “list of ships with the same or similar names” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q109570647. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1813, 1832, 1838 and 1857.

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This entry incorporates text from “HMS Slaney” 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.