HMS Harrier

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Seven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Harrier:

HMS Harrier (1804), an 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop launched in 1804 and lost around March 1809, presumed foundered off the Île de France.^[1]
HMS Harrier (1813), an 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop launched in 1813, sold in 1829
HMS Harrier (1831), an 18-gun sloop-of-war launched in 1831, broken up in 1840
HMS Harrier (1854), a 17-gun wood screw sloop-of-war launched in 1854, broken up in 1866
HMS Harrier (1881), a two-gun schooner launched in 1881, sold in 1888
HMS Harrier (1894), a Dryad-class torpedo gunboat launched in 1894, sold in 1920
HMS Harrier (J71), a Halcyon-class minesweeper launched in 1934, sold in 1950
HMS Harrier (shore establishment) was also a Royal Naval shore establishment for radar research and training, near Dale, Pembrokeshire. It was commissioned in 1948 and closed in 1961.^[2]

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Sixteen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Viper, or HMS Vipere, after the members of the Viperidae family:

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References

↑ Grocott (1997), p.277,
↑ "HMS Harrier". Coastlands Local History Group. Retrieved 28 September 2019.

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.
Grocott, Terence (1997), Shipwrecks of the revolutionary and Napoleonic eras, Chatham, ISBN 1-86176-030-2

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[1] Grocott (1997), p.277,

[2] "HMS Harrier". Coastlands Local History Group. Retrieved 28 September 2019.

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