HMS Pigeon

Last updated January 06, 2022

Several vessels of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Pigeon.

HMS Pigeon (1805) was the ex-mercantile Fanny, purchased in May 1805 and fitted and armed as a dispatch cutter. She was wrecked three quarters of a mile from the town of Rysum in East Friesland in November 1805 through the inexperience of her pilot.
HMS Pigeon (1806) was a Cuckoo-class schooner launched in 1806 and wrecked off Margate in 1809.
Pigeon: See HMS Variable (1827).
HMS Pigeon (1854) was the mercantile wood paddle tender Brothers purchased at Constantinople in 1854 and sold there in 1856.
HMS Pigeon (1860) was a wood screw Britomart-class gunboat built in 1860 and broken up in 1876.
HMS Pigeon (1888) was a composite screw gunboat built in 1888 and sold in 1906.
HMS Pigeon (1916) was an Admiralty M-class destroyer built in 1916 and sold in 1921.

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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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