HMS Gaspee

Two ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name Gaspee:

Gaspee (1763) was a revenue schooner famously destroyed in the 1772 Gaspee Affair in Narragansett Bay.[1]
Gaspee (1773) was a brig that saw service in North America during the American Revolutionary War.

References

Bartlett, John Russell (1861). A History of the Destruction of His Britannic Majesty's Schooner Gaspee, in Narragansett Bay, on the 10th June, 1772. A. C. Greene, printer to the state.

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