Ten ships of the

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have borne the name HMS ''Renard'', or HMS ''Reynard'', after the French for

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, and the anthropomorphic figure of

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: * was an 18-gun sloop that captured from the French in July 1781. She became a hospital ship in Antigua in 1781–82, and was broken up in 1784.Demerliac (1996), p.194, #1941. * was an 18-gun sloop, previously a French

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. The British captured her in 1797 and sold her in 1809. * was a French naval 12-gun

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that captured in 1803; The Admiralty later renamed her HMS ''Crafty''. The Spanish captured ''Crafty'' in 1807. * was a 10-gun launched in 1808 and sold for breaking up in 1818. * was a 10-gun ''Cherokee''-class brig-sloop launched in 1821. She was renamed HMS ''Renard'' in 1828, reclassified as a mooring vessel in 1841, and was broken up in 1857. * was a unique wooden

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launched in 1848 and wrecked in 1851. * was a launched in 1856 and broken up in 1866. * was a ''Beagle''-class schooner launched in Sydney in 1873 and sold in 1883. * was an launched in 1892 and sold in 1905. * was a launched in 1909 and sold in 1920.

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* *Demerliac, Alain (1996) ''La Marine De Louis XVI: Nomenclature Des Navires Français De 1774 À 1792''. (Nice: Éditions OMEGA). * {{DEFAULTSORT:Renard, Hms Royal Navy ship names