title: HMS Lucifer
text: # HMS Lucifer
  
  Six ships of the Royal Navy were named Lucifer:-
  
  * HMS Lucifer (1778), an 8-gun fireship purchased in frame at Rotherhithe, later renamed HMS Avenger, sold at New York City in 1783; sailed to London, and in 1784 became the mercantile Flora
  * HMS Lucifer (1781), a fireship, mercantile Elizabeth, sold at Deptford in 1784
  * HMS Lucifer (1803), an 8-gun bomb vessel, was built as Spring at Whitby in 1800 and sold to the Royal Navy shortly thereafter. The Royal Navy sold her in 1811.
  * HMS Lucifer (1837), a paddle gunvessel
  * HMS Lucifer (1913), a Laforey-class destroyer
  * HMS Lucifer (1856), a steamship
  
  ## Citations
  
  * ↑ Weatherill (1908), p. 102.
  * ↑ Winfield (2008), p. 375.
  