At least four ships of the
Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Mentor:
HMS Mentor (1780) was an armed ship of unknown name and 24-guns that the British
Royal Navy captured from the Americans in 1778, and that purchasers converted to the Liverpool privateer Who's Afraid.[1] Sir
Peter Parker purchased her at Jamaica in 1780 and renamed her HMS Mentor; she was burnt in 1781 during the
Siege of Pensacola to prevent the Spanish from capturing her.[2]
HMS Mentor (1781) was an 18-gun sloop, the former Massachusetts privateer Aurora, which
HMS Royal Oak captured on 10 July 1781;[3]Mentor foundered off Bermuda after 16 March 1783 with the loss of all hands, including the men she had rescued from
HMS Cerberus.
During World War II, the Ministry of Defence took over
Lews Castle as accommodation for the air and ground crew of
700 Naval Air Squadron. The squadron operated a detachment of six
Supermarine Walrus aircraft from a slipway at Cuddy Point in the Grounds. The base was referred to as HMS Mentor.
Hired armed vessels
From 1794 to 1798, the Admiralty employed the armed ship Mentor.
From 1793 to 1801 the Admiralty employed the
hired armed vesselMentor, a snow launched in 1792, of 19376⁄94 tons (
bm), armed with ten 4-pounder guns.[4]
Owsley, Frank L. Jr. (July 1983) Review of: The Log of H.M.S. Mentor, 1780-1781, a New Account of the British Navy at Pensacola by James A. Servies. Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 62, No. 1, pp. 82–4.
McCarthy, Kevin M. & William L. Trotter (1992) Thirty Florida Shipwrecks. (Pineapple Press).
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Hepper, David J. (1994). British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail, 1650-1859. Rotherfield: Jean Boudriot.
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Winfield, Rif (2008). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing.
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List of ships with the same or similar names
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