Five ships of the
Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom. It is a component of His Majesty's Naval Service, and its officers hold their commissions from the King of the United Kingdom, King. Although warships were used by Kingdom ...
have borne the name HMS ''Fantome'', after the French word ''Fantôme'', meaning '
ghost
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':
* was an 18-gun French
privateer
A privateer is a private person or vessel which engages in commerce raiding under a commission of war. Since robbery under arms was a common aspect of seaborne trade, until the early 19th century all merchant ships carried arms. A sovereign o ...
brig-sloop
During the 18th and 19th centuries, a sloop-of-war was a warship of the Royal Navy with a single gun deck that carried up to 18 guns. The rating system of the Royal Navy covered all vessels with 20 or more guns; thus, the term encompassed all ...
, captured in 1810 by and wrecked in 1814.
* was a 16-gun launched in 1839 and sold in 1864.
* was a composite
screw sloop
A screw sloop is a propeller-driven sloop-of-war. They were popularized in the mid-19th century, during the introduction of the steam engine and the transition of fleets to this new technology.
The sailing sloop
The British sloop in the Age o ...
launched in 1873 and sold in 1889.
* was a
sloop launched in 1901. She was used as a survey ship from 1906 and was sold in 1925.
* was an launched in 1942 and scrapped in 1947.
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Royal Navy ship names