Six ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Biter. Another was planned:
The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by the English kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years War against the Kingdom of France. The modern Royal Navy traces its origins to the early 16th century; the oldest of the UK's armed services, it is known as the Senior Service.
- HMS Biter (1797) was a 12-gun gunvessel launched in 1797 and sold in 1802.
- HMS Biter (1804) was a 12-gun gun-brig launched in 1804 and wrecked in 1805.
- HMS Biter was to have been a Teazer-class class wooden screw gunvessel. She was ordered in 1846 but was cancelled in 1849.
- HMS Biter (1855) was a Dapper-class wooden screw gunboat launched in 1855. She became a coal hulk in 1865 and was later renamed T16. She was sold in 1904.
- HMS Biter (1905) was a tender, previously the War Department vessel Sir William Reid. She was transferred in 1905 and sold in 1923.
- HMS Biter (D97) was an escort carrier launched in 1940. She was transferred to the Royal Navy under lend-lease in 1942, transferred to the French Navy in 1945 and renamed Dixmude, used as an accommodation ship from 1956 and was returned to the US Navy and sunk as a target in 1966.
- HMS Biter (P270) is an Archer-class patrol vessel vessel launched in 1985 and currently in service.
A brig is a sailing vessel with two square-rigged masts. During the Age of Sail, brigs were seen as fast and maneuverable and were used as both naval warships and merchant vessels. They were especially popular in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Brigs fell out of use with the arrival of the steam ship because they required a relatively large crew for their small size and were difficult to sail into the wind. Their rigging differs from that of a brigantine which has a gaff-rigged mainsail, while a brig has a square mainsail with an additional gaff-rigged spanker behind the mainsail.
The Dapper-class gunboat was a class of twenty gunboats built for the Royal Navy in 1854–55 for use in the Crimean War.
A gunboat is a naval watercraft designed for the express purpose of carrying one or more guns to bombard coastal targets, as opposed to those military craft designed for naval warfare, or for ferrying troops or supplies.
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