Four ships and two

shore establishment A stone frigate is a naval establishment on land. 'Stone frigate' is an informal term which has its origin in Britain's Royal Navy (RN), after its use of Diamond Rock, an island off Martinique, as a ' sloop of war' to harass the French in ...

s of the

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have been named HMS ''Buzzard'' after the bird, the buzzard:

Ships

* HMS ''Buzzard'' was a 16-gun

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, originally the French ship ''Lutine''. She was captured in the

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in 1806 and commissioned as . She was renamed HMS ''Buzzard'' in 1813 and was sold in 1814. * was a 10-gun

brigantine A brigantine is a two-masted sailing vessel with a fully square-rigged foremast and at least two sails on the main mast: a square topsail and a gaff sail mainsail (behind the mast). The main mast is the second and taller of the two masts. Ol ...

, originally ordered as a . She was launched in 1834 and sold in 1843. * was a wooden paddle sloop launched in 1849 and broken up in 1883. * was a composite screw sloop launched in 1887, renamed HMS ''President'' in 1911 and sold in 1921.

Shore establishments

* was a

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commissioned in 1939 and paid off later that year. It was recommissioned in 1940, renamed HMS ''Daedalus II'' later that year, and was then handed over to the

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. * was a Royal Naval Air Station at Kingston, Jamaica, in service between 1940 and 1945.

Citations

References

* *Warlow, Ben, ''Shore Establishments of the Royal Navy'', Liskeard : Maritime, 2000. {{DEFAULTSORT:Buzzard, Hms Royal Navy ship names