HMS Hotspur

• The first Hotspur was a 36-gun fifth-rate in service from 1810 to 1821.
• The second Hotspur was a 46-gun fifth-rate launched in 1828, a chapel hulk after 1859, renamed Monmouth in 1868, and sold in 1902.
• The third Hotspur was an armoured ram launched in 1870 and sold in 1904.
• The fourth Hotspur was an H-class destroyer launched in 1936 and transferred to the Dominican Republic in 1948.

Fictional ships

• A sloop called Hotspur appears in the Horatio Hornblower novel, Hornblower and the Hotspur, third in the series, armed with twenty 9 pounder cannon and four carronades(p 50, Pinnacle Books, eighth printing).
• A Hotspur appears in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's short story The Adventure of the Gloria Scott.
• A schooner called Hotspur appears in the Richard Bolitho novel A Band of Brothers, written by Douglas Reeman (using the pseudonym Alexander Kent).

External links

• - Daily Telegraph obituary