HMS Jaseur

Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Jaseur, the name coming from the French for the Waxwing.

• Jaseur was a 12-gun brig-sloop that Bombay captured off the Andaman Islands in 1807. She foundered, with the loss of her whole crew, in 1808.^[1]
• Jaseur was a Cruizer-class brig-sloop launched in 1813 and sold in 1847.
• Jaseur was a wood screw gunboat launched in 1857 and wrecked in 1859.
• Jaseur was a Philomel-class wood screw gunvessel launched in 1862 and sold in 1874 to the Commissioners of Irish Lights. Whether they renamed her and how long they kept her is unclear.
• Jaseur was a torpedo gunboat launched in 1892 and sold in 1905.
• Jaseur was an Algerine-class minesweeper launched in 1944 and sold for breaking up in 1956.

Citations

1. Hepper (1994), p.125.

References

• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475.
• Hepper, David J. (1994). British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail, 1650-1859. Rotherfield: Jean Boudriot. ISBN 0-948864-30-3.