HMS Challenger

Summary

HMS Challenger is a corvette^[1]. It ranks in the top 1% of corvette entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (198 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• HMS Challenger's image is recorded as HMS challenger William Frederick Mitchell.jpg^[3].
• HMS Challenger's instance of is recorded as corvette^[4].
• HMS Challenger's instance of is recorded as steamship^[5].
• HMS Challenger's instance of is recorded as research vessel^[6].
• HMS Challenger's operator is recorded as Royal Navy^[7].
• HMS Challenger's manufacturer is recorded as Woolwich Dockyard^[8].
• HMS Challenger's ISNI is recorded as 0000000097555387^[9].
• HMS Challenger's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 293793253^[10].
• HMS Challenger's GND ID is recorded as 4338445-6^[11].
• HMS Challenger's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as n92083824^[12].
• HMS Challenger's vessel class is recorded as Pearl-class corvette^[13].
• HMS Challenger's Commons category is recorded as HMS Challenger (ship, 1858)^[14].
• HMS Challenger's country of origin is recorded as United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland^[15].
• HMS Challenger's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/059pg2^[16].
• HMS Challenger's service entry is recorded as +1858-00-00T00:00:00Z^[17].
• HMS Challenger's significant event is recorded as ship launching^[18].
• HMS Challenger's significant event is recorded as ship breaking^[19].
• HMS Challenger's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 387.2240941^[20].
• HMS Challenger's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 623.828^[21].
• HMS Challenger's described by source is recorded as The Victorian Royal Navy^[22].
• HMS Challenger's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)^[23].
• HMS Challenger's different from is recorded as HMS Challenger^[24].
• HMS Challenger's different from is recorded as HMS Challenger^[25].
• HMS Challenger's different from is recorded as HMS Challenger^[26].
• HMS Challenger's different from is recorded as HMS Challenger^[27].

Body

Works and Contributions

Things named for HMS Challenger include Challenger Deep^[28], a deep^[29] and Challenger^[30], a Space Shuttle orbiter^[31].

Why It Matters

HMS Challenger ranks in the top 1% of corvette entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (198 views/month).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 16 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[32] It is known by 6 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[33]

Entities named for it include Challenger Deep^[28], a deep^[29] and Challenger^[30], a Space Shuttle orbiter^[31].