Definitions for "HMS Grampus"
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Ten vessels of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Grampus after two members of the dolphin family (Delphinidae): Grampus griseus, also known as Risso's Dolphin, and Orcinus orca, also known as the Killer Whale.
HMS Grampus was a 50-gun ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was commissioned at Portsmouth by Captain T. Gordon Caulfield in March 1803 and was ordered to the Downs on May 7.
HMS Grampus was a Beagle-class destroyer of the Royal Navy and originally named HMS Nautilus when she was commissioned on March 30, 1910. She was renamed Grampus on December 16, 1913, her former name being reallocated to HMS Nautilus, the first Royal Navy submarine to be given one.