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Several ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Venturer.

• The first HMS Venturer was a 14 gun cutter purchased by the Royal Navy in February 1787 and named HMS Ranger. It was captured by the French Navy on 28 June 1794 near Brest. The Ranger was recaptured by the Royal Navy on 14 October 1797, retaken by the French on 2 November but retaken again by the British four days later and recommissioned into the navy as HMS Venturer. It was sold on 10 February 1803 at Gibraltar.
• The second HMS Venturer was the 10-gun French schooner Nouvelle Enterprise captured by HMS Nimrod on 27 December 1807 in the West Indies. Commissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS Venturer, the ship was renamed HMS Theodocia in 1812 and sold in 1814. Note that a reliable source (British Warships in the Age of Sail, 1793-1817 by Rif Winfield) has this as taken 17th December 1807, renamed HMS Theodosia upon registration on 19 December 1808 and sold 15 December 1814.
• HMS Venturer (P68), a V class submarine, launched in 1943 which sank two German submarines during the Second World War and was sold to the Norwegian Navy in 1946. Renamed HNoMS Utstein, the boat was scrapped in Sweden in 1964.
• A 105 foot coastal minesweeper was allocated to the Bristol Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Division and commissioned as HMS Venturer in 1948. Subsequent vessels operated by the division also bore this name until 1976, when the then current HMS Venturer reverted to her former name of HMS Hodgeston.^[1]
• The most recent HMS Venturer launched in 1972 at Woolwich as the commercial trawler Suffolk Harvester. She was converted to a minesweeper and commissioned into the Severn RNVR on 25 November 1978. The ship, and her sister HMS St. David (originally Suffolk Conquest) were returned to their original owner in November 1983. They reverted to their former names and were converted into oil rig safety/standby vessels.^[2]

• Colledge, J. J. and Warlow, Ben (2006). Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy, Rev. ed., London: Chatham. ISBN 9781861762818. OCLC 67375475. 
• Rif Winfield, British Warships in the Age of Sail, 1793-1817. (Chatham Publishing, 2005)

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