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{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2018}}{{Use British English|date=January 2018}}Eight ships of Britain's Royal Navy have been named HMS Eclipse: - {{HMS|Eclipse|1797}}, a 12-gun, 169-ton gunboat launched at Blackwall on 29 March 1797. She was offered for sale in August 1802,[1] and was sold in October.
- {{HMS|Eclipse|1804}}, a 4-gun Vesuve-class French brig originally called Volage, and then Venteux, captured by the Royal Navy 1803.[2] Added to Royal Navy as Eagle soon after capture, her name was in 1804 to Eclipse. Sold on 7 April 1807.
- {{HMS|Eclipse|1807}} an 18-gun {{sclass-|Cruizer|brig-sloop}} launched at Dover on 4 August 1807 and sold on 31 August 1815. She traded with India until 1823. Then between 1823 and 1845 she made seven voyages as a whaler.
- {{HMS|Eclipse|1819}}, a 10-gun {{sclass-|Cherokee|brig-sloop|2}} sold on 10 November 1863.
- {{HMS|Eclipse|1860}}, a 700-ton wooden screw sloop launched at Millwall on 18 September 1860 and broken up in July 1867.
- {{HMS|Eclipse|1867}}, a 1,267-ton {{sclass-|Eclipse|sloop|0}} wooden screw sloop originally named Sappho but renamed before her launch at Sheerness on 14 November 1867 and lent to the War Department for use as a storage hulk between 1888 and 1892. Sold in 1921.
- {{HMS|Eclipse|1894|6}}, the lead ship of her class of cruisers. Launched at Portsmouth on 19 July 1894 and sold in August 1921.
- {{HMS|Eclipse|H08|6}}, an E-class destroyer launched at Denny on 12 April 1934 and sunk by a mine in the Aegean Sea on 24 October 1943.
Citations and referencesCitations1. ^{{London Gazette|date=21 August 1802|issue=15508|page=888}} 2. ^Winfield and Roberts (2015), p. 214.
References- {{Colledge}}
- Winfield, Rif & Stephen S Roberts (2015) French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786 - 1861: Design Construction, Careers and Fates. (Seaforth Publishing). {{ISBN|9781848322042}}
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