HMS Pilot

Last updated October 05, 2021

Four ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Pilot, or HMS Pilote:

HMS Pilote (1779) was a 14-gun brig-sloop, formerly the French Mutin-class cutter Pilote. Pilote was launched November 1778 at Dunkirk; the Admiralty sold her in May 1799.
HMS Pilot (1807) was an 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop launched in 1807 and sold in 1828. She became a whaler, making five whale fishing voyages between 1830 and 1842; she was last listed in 1844.
HMS Pilot (1838) was a 16-gun brig-sloop launched in 1838 and sold in 1862.
HMS Pilot (1879) was an 8-gun training brig launched in 1879 and sold in 1907.

This article includes a list of ships with the same or similar names. If an internal link for a specific ship led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ship article, if one exists.

Related Research Articles

Ten ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Royalist:

Several ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Nautilus, after the Greek word for a sailor, including:

Fourteen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name Kingfisher, after the kingfisher bird:

Seven ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Snake:

Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Acorn. A seventh was planned but never completed:

Fifteen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Ranger

Nine ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Rainbow, after the rainbow, a common meteorological phenomenon:

Eight ships of Britain's Royal Navy have been named HMS Eclipse:

Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Barracouta, after the fish Thyrsites atun. Another was renamed before being launched:

Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Albatross, after the seabird, the albatross. A seventh was planned but never completed:

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

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

Seven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Britomart, after the Britomartis of Greek mythology:

Sixteen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Alert, while another was planned:

Twenty-two ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Falcon. They are named after an exceptionally fast bird of prey.

Seven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Penguin. A penguin is a flightless aquatic bird.

Nine ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Rapid:

Eight ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Satellite:

Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Griper:

HMS Swift has been the name of numerous ships of the Royal Navy:

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.