A number of ships of the

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have borne the name HMS ''Dee'', after one or other of the British rivers called the Dee. * , a

sixth-rate In the rating system of the Royal Navy used to categorise sailing warships, a sixth-rate was the designation for small warships mounting between 20 and 28 carriage-mounted guns on a single deck, sometimes with smaller guns on the upper works and ...

frigate (or corvette) built by

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in Ipswich, launched in May 1814, commissioned at Sheerness in October 1814, and sold in July 1819. * HMS ''Dee'' was to have been a flush-decked

brig A brig is a type of sailing vessel defined by its rig: two masts which are both square-rigged. Brigs originated in the second half of the 18th century and were a common type of smaller merchant vessel or warship from then until the latter part ...

(or

brig-sloop In the 18th century and most of the 19th, a sloop-of-war in the Royal Navy was a warship with a single gun deck that carried up to eighteen guns. The rating system covered all vessels with 20 guns and above; thus, the term ''sloop-of-war'' enco ...

) ordered from Woolwich dockyard in March 1823, and re-ordered as a paddle-steamer in May 1824. * , a paddle steamer built by Woolwich dockyard, launched in May 1832, that served until June 1871, and broken up at Sheerness in October 1871. * , a

flatiron gunboat Flat-iron gunboats (more formally known as Rendel gunboats) were a number of classes of coastal gunboats generally characterised by small size, low freeboard, the absence of masts,Some Rendel-type gunboats were fitted with masts (the British ''Med ...

built by Palmer, launched in April 1877, and sold in 1902. * , a built by Palmer, launched in September 1903, completed in May 1903, and sold in 1919.''Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921'' p. 18. *, a

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launched in 1955 was renamed HMS ''Dee'' whilst serving as the training tender to the Mersey Division of the Royal Naval Reserve.

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References

* Roger Chesneau, ''Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921'', published Conway Maritime Press, 1985. * Robert Gardiner, ''Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905'', published Conway Maritime Press, 1979. * David Lyon and Rif Winfield, ''The Sail & Steam Navy List, all the ships of the Royal Navy 1815-1889'', pub Chatham Publishing, 2003, * Rif Winfield, ''British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793-1817'', pub Chatham Publishing, 2005, * Rif Winfield, ''British Warships in the Age of Sail 1817-1863: Design, Construction, Careers & Fates'', pub Seaforth Publishing, 2014, {{DEFAULTSORT:Dee, HMS Royal Navy ship names