HMS Thracian
Two vessels of the
Royal Navy
have been named
HMS
Thracian
after the
Thracians
:
HMS
Thracian
(1809)
was an 18-gun
Cruizer
-class
brig-sloop
commissioned into the Royal Navy in 1809. She was converted into a
ship-sloop
in 1822 and was
broken up
at
Portsmouth
in 1829.
HMS
Thracian
(1920)
was an
S-class
destroyer
built for the
Royal Navy during the First World War
. After running aground during the
Battle of Hong Kong
in 1941, she was commissioned into the
Imperial Japanese Navy
as
Patrol Boat No. 101
. The Royal Navy regained her at the end of the
Second World War
in 1945 and scrapped her in 1946.