HMS Supply

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rdf:langString Nine ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Supply. * was a 6-gun fireship purchased in 1672 and expended in 1673. * was a 9-gun fireship purchased in 1688. Her fate is unknown. * was a 4-gun hoy launched in 1725 and captured in 1752 * HMS Supply (1759) was a 4-gun armed tender launched in 1759 and sold in 1792; she played an important part in the foundation of Australia. * was a 26-gun storeship, originally in civilian service as the Prince of Wales. She was purchased in 1777 and destroyed in accidental fire in 1779. * was a 20-gun storeship purchased in 1781 and sold in 1784. * HMS Supply (1793) was a 10-gun storeship, of 388 tons (bm), originally the American mercantile New Brunswick, which the Admiralty purchased in 1793 as an armed vessel for the colony at Botany Bay; she was broken up there in 1806. * was a transport launched in 1798 and broken up in 1834. * was an iron-screw storeship purchased whilst under construction in 1854. She had been broken up by 1879.