Sixteen ships of the
Royal Navy
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have borne the name HMS ''Fly'':
* was a six-gun
sloop
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, built in 1648 and last listed in 1652.
* was a six-gun
dogger captured from the Dutch in 1672 and wrecked in 1673.
* was a six-gun advice boat built in 1694 and wrecked in 1695.
* was a four-gun
ketch
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built in 1696 and sold in 1712.
* was a 12-gun sloop launched in 1732 and broken up in 1750.
* was an eight-gun sloop launched in 1752 and sold in 1772.
* was a
cutter
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* Bolt cutter
* Box cutter, aka Stanley knife, a form of utility knife
* Cigar cutter
* Cookie cutter
* Glass cutter
* Meat cutter
* Milling cutter
* Paper cutter
* Side cutter
* Cutter, a type of hydraulic rescue to ...
purchased in 1763 and sold in 1771.
* was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1776 and foundered off the Newfoundland coast in 1801 or 1802.
* was a 14-gun cutter purchased in 1780 and captured by the French in May 1781.
* was an 18-gun sloop launched in 1804 and wrecked in March 1805 on the
Carysfort Reef
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Jo ...
in the Gulf of Florida; her crew were saved.
* was a 16-gun brig-sloop launched in 1805. In 1807 she participated in one major naval campaign. She was wrecked on 28 February 1812 at
Anholt Island in the Kattegat.
* was a brig-sloop launched in 1813 and sold in 1828.
* was an 18-gun sloop launched in 1831. She was converted into a coal hulk in 1855, after which she was renamed ''C2'' and then ''C70''. She was broken up in 1903.
* was a wooden screw
gunboat
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History Pre-ste ...
launched in 1856 and broken up in 1862.
* was a launched in 1867 and sold in 1887.
* was an launched in 1942. She was sold to
Iran
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in 1949 and renamed ''Palang''. She was paid off in 1966 and stricken from the navy list in 1972. She sank and was then broken up.
References
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Royal Navy ship names