Ten ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Royalist:
HMSRoyalist(1798) was a gun-vessel of four guns, purchased in 1798 and no longer listed by 1800. This may represent a faulty attribution of HM hired armedluggerRoyalist.
HMSRoyalist(1823) was a Cherokee-class brig-sloop built in 1823 at Portsmouth. She spent much of her life as a tender to battleships and was sold in 1838.
HMSRoyalist(1841) was the ex-Mary Gordon, built at Bombay in 1839 and purchased in China in 1841. She was hulked in 1856, and served the Thames Police between 1860 and 1890.
HMSRoyalist(1883) was a Satellite-classcorvette launched 1883. She was hulked as a depot ship in 1900, renamed Colleen in 1913 and transferred to the Irish Free State in 1923. She was scrapped in 1950.
↑ Johnston, Ian (1993). Beardmore built: the rise and fall of a Clydeside shipyard. Clydebank: Clydebank District Libraries & Museums Dept. p.143. ISBN0-906938-05-8.
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