HMS Fawn (1805), a 16-gun brig-corvette, originally the French ship Faune, that Goliath captured in the English Channel in 1805 and that disappears from the records in 1806.
HMSFawn(1807), an 18-gun sloop-of-war launched in 1807, sold in 1818; she then made seven whaling voyages from 1820 until she was broken up in 1844.
↑ In the Royal Navy, and other Commonwealth navies that follow the traditions of the RN, battle honours awarded to a ship are inherited by subsequent ships to bear the same name, and are displayed on the ship's honours board.[4]
References
↑ "Rio Janeiro, South America". The Standard. No.4678. London. 18 June 1839. p.5. Retrieved 13 June 2023– via British Newspaper Archive.
↑ Lyon, David; Winfield, Rif (2004). The sail & steam Navy list: all the ships of the Royal Navy 1815 - 1889. London: Chatham. p.336. ISBN1-86176-032-9.
↑ Colledge, J. J. (1969). Ships of the Royal Navy: An Historical Index. Vol.I. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. p.205.
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