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Nineteen ships and a shore establishment of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Drake after Sir Francis Drake or after the drake:
Nine ships and one shore establishment of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Wasp, with one other government vessel using the name:
Sixteen ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Pelican, after the bird, while another was planned:
Ten ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Mutine :
Sixteen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Alert, while another was planned:
Eight ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Espiegle
Eight ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Seagull or HMS Sea Gull, after the gull:
Seventeen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Dispatch, or the variant HMS Despatch:
Nine ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Zephyr after Zephyrus, the Greek god of the west wind:
Sixteen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Hope:
HMS Swift has been the name of numerous ships of the Royal Navy:
There have been twelve ships of the Royal Navy that have been named HMS Flying Fish, after the Flying Fish.
Ten ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Renard, or HMS Reynard, after the French for fox, and the anthropomorphic figure of Reynard:
Spider has been the name of a number of vessels of the British Royal Navy;
The French frigate Aigle was launched in 1780 as a privateer. The French Navy purchased her in 1782, but the British captured her that same year and took her into the Royal Navy as the 38-gun fifth rate HMS Aigle. During the French Revolutionary Wars she served primarily in the Mediterranean, where she was wrecked in 1798.
The action of 15 September 1782 was a naval action in the mouth of the Delaware Bay in which four Royal Naval vessels under the command of George Elphinstone pursued and attacked three French warships that included two frigates under the command of Comte de la Touche Tréville. The French 38-gun frigate Aigle was grounded and captured along with the Comte de la Touche.
HMS Racoon was a 14-gun two-masted brig-sloop of the Royal Navy, purchased for service during the American Revolutionary War. She was commissioned in August 1782 under the command of Lieutenant Edmund Nagle, but was captured and destroyed four weeks later by the French frigate Aigle.
The French brig Duc de Chartres was built between 1779 and 1780 at Le Havre as a 24-gun privateer. As a privateer she captured one British warship before in 1781 the Royal Navy captured her. The Royal Navy took her into service as HMS Duc de Chartres. She then captured several American privateers and armed merchant vessels, and one French naval corvette in a noteworthy single-ship action. The Navy sold Duc de Chartres in 1784.
Six vessels of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Sylph after the air spirits known as sylphs:
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.
- Demerliac, Alain (1996). La Marine de Louis XVI: Nomenclature des Navires Français de 1774 à 1792 (in French). Éditions Ancre. ISBN 9782906381230. OCLC 468324725.
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