Enchantress was the slave ship Manuela (or Emanuela) that HMS Brisk captured off the east coast of Africa on 10 August 1860, with 846 slaves aboard. The Royal Navy used her as a storeship and she wrecked on 20 February 1861 at Mayotte in the Mozambique Channel without ever having been commissioned.

HMS Enchantress (L56) was a Bittern-class sloop, built for the British Royal Navy. She was the lead ship of her class, being laid down as Bittern, but renamed as Enchantress before being launched by Lady Jean Alice Elaine Cochrane. [2]

HMS Enchantress was a yacht owned by the British Royal Navy, for use by members of the Admiralty Board, and was used by Winston Churchill to tour Royal Navy installations such as Gibraltar and Malta while he was First Lord of the Admiralty from 1911 to 1915.

Jun 17, 2016 · HMS Enchantress was Churchill’s personal transport as First Lord of the Admiralty, 1911-14. Like most of his luxuries, it served also as a focus for work.

May 23, 2024 · When the ship returned to UK it went into refit and with war threatening in July 1914, officers of HMS Enchantress were mobilised and sent to HMS Invincible. The yacht then became a hospital ship for officers. Interests:British Admirals, 1889-1919. Royal Navy, 1854-1919.

The Italian submarine Corallo was rammed and sunk off Bougie, Algeria in position 36°58'N, 05°07'E by the British sloop HMS Enchantress (Lt.Cdr. A.E.F. Christie, OBE, RN). HMS Enchantress was an escort for convoy KMS 4 Gibraltar-Algiers).

Apr 2, 2021 · H.M.Y. Enchantress was a yacht in the Royal Navy. Tendered for by Harland & Wolff, Belfast; Henderson & Co., Glasgow; Inglis, Glasgow; and Ramage & Ferguson, Leith. Built by Harland & Wolff, Belfast.

"The HMS Enchantress was one of a lost breed of ocean-going splendours, a steam yacht. They were glorious craft with slim and elegantly raked funnels, a bowsprit and sumptuous polished wood and brass, epitomising late Victorian and Edwardian style and grace.

Five ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Enchantress: HMS Enchantress (1804) was a 14-gun sloop bought in 1804, used for harbour service from 1813, listed until 1818; HMS Enchantress (1862) was a dispatch vessel launched in 1862, became the Admiralty yacht, sold for breaking up in 1889.

Jun 23, 2004 · She was an Admiralty Yacht that acted as a field hospital for officers. and with refernce pre- war: “Over the next few years Churchill was to take control of the Admiralty as First Lord, and proceeded to spearhead a naval arms race with the German Navy. He was to spend quite some time aboard the HMS Enchantress.”