HMS Pitt

{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2017}} {{Use British English|date=January 2017}} Six vessels of the Royal Navy have borne the name '''HMS ''Pitt''''':

*{{HMS|Pitt|1763}} was an 8-gun cutter purchased in 1763 that foundered in the Atlantic in 1766, "coming from Africa".<ref>Hepper (1994), p.47.</ref> *{{HMS|Pitt|1805}} was a 12-gun schooner purchased in 1805, renamed ''Sandwich '' in 1807, and broken up in 1809. *{{HMS|Salsette|1805|6}} was a 36-gun ''Perseverance''-class fifth rate frigate launched as HMS ''Pitt'' in 1805, but was renamed ''Salsette'' in 1807, and was broken up in 1874. *{{HMS|Doris|1808|6}} was named ''Salsette'' before her acquisition by the Royal Navy, renamed ''Pitt'', and then ''Doris'' in 1807, and sold at Valparaiso in 1829. *{{HMS|Pitt|1816}} was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1816, became a coal hulk in 1853, and was broken up in 1877. *HMS Pitt was a screw 91-gun second rate ordered in 1860 but cancelled in 1863. *{{HMS|Trafalgar|1820|6}} was a 106-gun first rate launched in 1820, renamed ''Camperdown'' in 1825, on harbour service in 1854, coal hulk in 1857, renamed ''Pitt'' in 1882, and sold 1906.

==See also== *HM hired armed brig {{ship|Hired armed brig|Pitt||2}}, which served between c.1808 and 1812.

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==References== * {{Colledge: Ships RN|year=2006}} * {{cite book|last=Hepper|first=David J.|year=1994|title=British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail, 1650-1859|publisher=Jean Boudriot|location=Rotherfield|isbn=0-948864-30-3}}

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