HMS Cruizer

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Eleven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Cruizer or HMS Cruiser:

HMS Cruizer (1705) was a 24-gun sixth rate, previously the French ship De Meric. She was captured in 1705 by HMS Tryton and was wrecked in 1708.
HMS Cruizer (1709) was a 14-gun sloop. She was previously named Unity, before being purchased in 1709. She was sold in 1712.
HMS Cruizer (1721) was an 8-gun sloop captured in 1721 and foundered in 1724.
HMS Cruizer (1721 sloop) was an 8-gun sloop launched in 1721 and broken up in 1731.
HMS Cruizer (1732) was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1732 and broken up in 1744.
HMS Cruizer (1752) was an 8-gun Bonetta-class sloop launched in 1752 and burnt in 1776.
HMS Cruizer (1780) was a 14-gun cutter purchased in 1780 and lost in 1792.
HMS Cruizer (1797) was the prototype of the 18-gun Cruizer-class brig sloops, to which design 110 vessels were ordered; the prototype was launched in 1797 and sold in 1819.
HMS Cruizer (1828) was a Snake-class ship sloop launched in 1828, converted to a brig in 1831, back to a ship in 1840 and sold at Bombay in 1849.
HMS Cruizer (1852) was a Cruizer-class wooden screw sloop launched in 1852. She was renamed HMS Cruiser in 1857, and then converted into a training ship and renamed HMS Lark in 1893. She was sold in 1912.
HMS Cruizer was a Doterel-class sloop, previously named HMS Kingfisher. She had been launched in 1879, renamed HMS Lark in 1892 and HMS Cruizer in 1893. She was sold in 1919.

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Nine ships and a base of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Curlew after the bird, the curlew:

Eighteen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Fly:

HMS Cruizer was a 17-gun wooden screw sloop, the name-ship of the Cruizer class of the Royal Navy, launched at the Royal Dockyard, Deptford in 1852. The spelling of her name was formally altered to HMS Cruiser in 1857. She became a sail training vessel in 1872 and was renamed HMS Lark. She was eventually sold for breaking in 1912.

Ten ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Mutine :

Sixteen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Lark or HMS Larke, after the bird, the lark:

Eleven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Weazel or HMS Weazle, archaic spellings of weasel, while another was planned:

Thirty-nine vessels of the Royal Navy and its predecessors have borne the name Swallow, as has one dockyard craft, one naval vessel of the British East India Company, and at least two revenue cutters, all after the bird, the Swallow:

Ten ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Forester:

Twelve ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Scout:

Seventeen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Dispatch, or the variant HMS Despatch:

The Snake-class ship-sloops were a class of four Royal Navy sloops-of-war built in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Though ships of the class were designed with the hull of a brig, their defining feature of a ship-rig changed their classification to that of a ship-sloop rather than that of a brig-sloop.

References

Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.

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