About: HMS Opossum

Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Opossum, after the opossum: * was a Cherokee-class brig-sloop launched in 1808 and sold in 1819. * was a Cherokee-class brig-sloop launched in 1821 and sold in 1841. * was an Albacore-class wooden screw gunboat launched in 1856. She became a hospital hulk in 1876, and a mooring vessel in 1891. She was renamed HMS Siren in 1895 and was sold in 1896. * HMS Opossum (1895) was a Sunfish-class destroyer launched in 1895 and sold in 1920. * HMS Opossum (U33) was a Black Swan-class sloop launched in 1944 and broken up in 1960. * HMS Opossum (S19) was an Oberon-class submarine launched in 1963 and broken up in 1996.