HMS Saltash

Seven ships of the Royal Navy have been named Saltash:

• HMS Saltash (1732), a 14-gun sloop launched at Plymouth in 1732 and sold out of service in 1741.
• HMS Saltash (1741), a 14-gun sloop built at Rotherhithe in 1741 but wrecked off Portugal a year later.
• HMS Saltash (1742), a 14-gun sloop, built at Rotherhithe in 1742 and sunk off Beachy Head in 1746.
• HMS Saltash (1746), a 14-gun sloop built at Rotherhithe in 1746 and sold at the end of the Seven Years' War in 1763.
• HMS Saltash (1748), a storeship built in 1748 and wrecked in 1752.
• HMS Saltash (1809), a lighter built in 1809 and sold in 1831.
• HMS Saltash (J62), a Hunt-class minesweeper of the Aberdare sub-class built for the Royal Navy during World War I and sold for scrap in 1947.

Fiction

• HMS Saltash, a River-class frigate in the 1951 novel The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat.

References

• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2010) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (4th Rev. ed.). Newbury: Casemate. ISBN 978-1-935149-07-1.