Sixteen ships of the
Royal Navy
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have borne the name HMS ''Cygnet'', the name given to a young
swan
Swans are birds of the genus ''Cygnus'' within the family Anatidae. The swans' closest relatives include the goose, geese and ducks. Swans are grouped with the closely related geese in the subfamily Anserinae where they form the tribe (biology) ...
:
* was a 3-gun
pink
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built in 1585 and condemned in 1603.
* was a 10-gun ship, originally a
privateer
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. She was purchased in 1643 and sold in 1654.
* was an 8-gun
sloop launched in 1657 and sold in 1664.
* was a
survey vessel
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purchased in 1684. She foundered in 1687.
* was an 8-gun
fireship
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purchased in 1688 and captured by the French in 1693.
* was an 18-gun sloop, formerly the French ''Guirlande''. She was captured in 1758 and sold in 1768.
* was a 14-gun launched in 1776 and sold in 1802.
* was a 16-gun launched in 1804 and wrecked in 1815.
* was a 10-gun launched in 1819 that became a
Post Office Packet Service
The Post Office Packet Service dates to Tudor times and ran until 1823, when the Admiralty assumed control of the service. Originally, the General Post Office, Post Office used packet ships to carry mail packets to and from British embassies, col ...
packet
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* A small container or pouch
** Packet (container), a small single use container
** Cigarette packet
** Sugar packet
* Network packet, a formatted unit of data carried by a packet-mode computer network
* Packet radio, a form ...
, sailing out of
Falmouth, Cornwall
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Falmouth was founded in 1613 by the Killigrew family on a site near the existing Pendennis Castle. It developed as a po ...
. She was sold in 1835.
* was an 8-gun brig-sloop launched in 1840, renamed ''WV30'' when handed to
HM Coastguard
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in 1863, and broken up by 1877.
* was a wooden screw gunvessel launched in 1860 and broken up in 1868.
* was a composite screw
gunboat
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History Pre-steam ...
launched in 1874 and broken up in 1889.
* was a
destroyer
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larger vessels in a fleet, convoy, or carrier battle group and defend them against a wide range of general threats. They were conceived i ...
launched in 1898 and sold in 1920.
* was a
C-class destroyer launched in 1931. She was transferred to the
Royal Canadian Navy
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as the
River-class destroyer in 1937 and was sold for scrapping in 1947.
* was a launched in 1942 and broken up in 1956.
* was a launched in 1975 and sold in 1996.
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Royal Navy ship names