# HMS Terror

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The most well-known {{HMS|Terror|1813}} took part in [James Clark Ross](/source/James_Clark_Ross)'s [expedition to Antarctica](/source/Ross_expedition) from 1839 to 1843, and [John Franklin's lost expedition](/source/Franklin's_lost_expedition) in 1845, both with her sister ship {{HMS|Erebus|1826|6}}. She was originally a 10-gun bomb vessel launched in 1813 and converted to a discovery vessel in 1836. She was involved in the bombardment of [Fort McHenry](/source/Fort_McHenry) in the [War of 1812](/source/War_of_1812). The two ships were converted to screw propulsion in 1844 in preparation for their second polar expedition, where they became trapped in ice near [King William Island](/source/King_William_Island) and were abandoned in 1848.

Eight other ships of the [Royal Navy](/source/Royal_Navy) have borne the name '''HMS ''Terror''''':
* {{HMS|Terror|1696}} was a 4-gun [bomb vessel](/source/bomb_vessel) launched in 1696, and captured and burnt by the French in 1704.
* {{HMS|Terror|1741}} was a 14-gun bomb vessel launched in 1741 and sold in 1754.
* {{HMS|Terror|1759}} was an 8-gun bomb ketch launched in 1759 for the British [Royal Navy](/source/Royal_Navy) that it sold in 1774. New owners renamed her ''Union''. She made two voyages as a Greenland [whaler](/source/whale_fishing) before becoming a London-based transport. She remained a transport until she was lost on 20 May 1782 off the Malabar coast of India.
* {{HMS|Terror|1779}} was an 8-gun bomb vessel launched in 1779 and sold in 1812.
* {{HMS|Terror|1794}} was a 4-gun [gunboat](/source/gunboat), formerly a Dutch [hoy](/source/hoy_(boat)). She was purchased in 1794 and sold in 1804.
* {{HMS|Terror|1856}} was a 16-gun iron screw floating battery launched in 1856. She became the base ship at [Bermuda](/source/Bermuda) in 1857 and was sold in 1902.
* HMS ''Terror'' was previously the iron screw troopship {{HMS|Malabar|1866|6}}. She was launched in 1866, became a base ship in 1897 and was renamed ''Terror'' in 1901.  She was put up for sale in 1914 and was sold in 1918.
* {{HMS|Terror|I03}} was an {{sclass|Erebus|monitor|0}} [monitor](/source/monitor_warship_type) launched in 1916. She was sunk in an air attack in 1941.
Shore establishment:
* HMS ''Terror'' (from 1945 to 1971) was also the name of the Royal Navy [barracks](/source/barracks) next to [Singapore Naval Base](/source/Singapore_Naval_Base) in [Sembawang](/source/Sembawang), [Singapore](/source/Singapore).

==Other British military vessels named ''Terror''==
* ''Terror'' was a gunboat that the garrison at Gibraltar launched in June 1782 during the [Great Siege of Gibraltar](/source/Great_Siege_of_Gibraltar). She was one of 12. Each was armed with an 18-pounder gun, and received a crew of 21 men drawn from Royal Navy vessels stationed at Gibraltar. {{HMS|Porcupine|1777|2}} provided ''Terror''{{'}}s crew.<ref>Drinkwater (1905), p. 246.</ref>

==Citations==
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==References==
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* [Drinkwater, John](/source/John_Drinkwater_Bethune) (1905) ''A History of the Siege of Gibraltar, 1779-1783: With a Description and Account of that Garrison from the Earliest Times''. (J. Murray).
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