HMS Ruby

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

HMS Ruby (1652) was initially a 40-gun warship launched in 1652. She fought in the War of the Spanish Succession as part of a fleet under Admiral John Benbow. She was rebuilt in 1706 carrying between 46 and 54 guns.^[1] and captured in 1707 by the French ship Mars.
HMS Ruby (1666) was a 66-gun third-rate ship of the line, originally the French ship Rubis. She was captured in 1666, hulked after sustaining storm damage in 1682 and broken up in 1685.
HMS Ruby (1708) was a 54-gun fourth-rate ship of the line launched in 1708. She was renamed HMS Mermaid in 1744 and was sold in 1748.
HMS Ruby (1745) was a 50-gun third-rate ship of the line launched in 1745 and broken up in 1765.
HMS Rubis (1747), Rubis (1729), a 52-gun ship of the line, captured in 1747 and taken into service as HMS Rubis and condemned in 1748.
HMS Ruby (1776) was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line launched in 1776 that served at Bermuda between 1811 and her breaking up in 1821.
HMS Ruby (1842) was an iron paddle tender launched in 1842 and sold in 1846.
HMS Ruby (1854) was a wood screw gunboat launched in 1854 and broken up in 1868.
HMS Ruby (1876) was an Emerald-class composite screw corvette launched in 1876. She was converted to a coal hulk in 1904 and renamed C 10. She was sold in 1921.
HMS Ruby (1910) was an Acorn-class destroyer launched in 1910 and sold in 1921.

There was also HMS Ruby Prize, a 44-gun French privateer that HMS Ruby captured in 1694 and that the Navy sold in 1698. She became a merchantman and was lost at Mayotte in 1799.

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Nine ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Falmouth, after the town of Falmouth:

17 ships of the French Navy have been named Rubis ("Ruby"), or Ruby as it was spelled until the 18th century:

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HMS Ruby was a 40-gun frigate of the Commonwealth of England, built by Peter Pett at Deptford and launched on 15 March 1652.

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Twenty ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Swan, or the archaic HMS Swann, probably after the bird, the Swan:

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↑ Lavery, SoLv1 p. 167

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[1] Lavery, SoLv1 p. 167

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