HMS Redwing

Last updated September 24, 2021

Six ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Redwing, after the redwing. Another was renamed before being launched, and another was cancelled.

HMS Redwing (1806) was a Cruizer-class brig-sloop, built in Brightlingsea in 1806, and lost at sea in 1827.
HMS Redwing was to have been an 18-gun sloop. She was ordered in 1829 and cancelled in 1832.
HMS Redwing (1837) was a wooden paddle packet, originally the GPO's Richmond. She was transferred to the Navy in 1837 and sold in 1849.
HMS Redwing (1855) was a Dapper-class gunboat, built at Northfleet in 1855, and broken up in 1878.
HMS Redwing (1880) was a composite screw gunboat built as HMS Espion but renamed in 1879 and launched in 1880. She was sold in 1905.
HMS Redwing (1905) was a tender, previously the War Department's Sir Charles Pasley. She was transferred to the Navy in 1905 and was sold in 1931.
HMS Redwing was to have been an Admiralty M-class destroyer. She was renamed HMS Medora in 1915, and finally HMS Medway in 1916, and launched that year.
HMS Redwing (1933) was a tender launched in 1933, sold in 1957 and broken up in 1965.

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