HMS Nimrod

Six ships of the Royal Navy, and one shore establishment, have borne the name HMS Nimrod, after the biblical figure of Nimrod. The first was an 18-gun sloop captured from the French in 1799, later sold in 1811 to become a whaler that undertook three whaling voyages between 1811 and 1819. Another Nimrod, launched in 1812, was wrecked in 1827 when driven ashore after her anchor broke, but was refloated and sold later that year. The name also served on a flotilla leader launched in 1915 and sold in 1926, and a shore establishment at Campbeltown, Argyll, which became the principal Asdic training school for officers and men from early 1940.