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HMS St Joseph

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 27, 2021
Entity authorityQ5634446 ↗
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Two ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS St Joseph:

HMS St Joseph (1696) was an 8-gun sloop captured in 1696 and sold in 1699.

HMS St Joseph (1704) was a 4-gun hoy purchased in 1704 and sold in 1710.

See also

HMS San Josef was a 114-gun first rate captured from the Spanish in 1797. She was used as a gunnery training ship from 1837 and was broken up in 1849.

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This entry incorporates text from “HMS St Joseph” 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.