Seven ships of the

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have borne the name HMS ''Hawke'', after an archaic spelling of the bird, the

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. Two of the later ships were named after

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, whilst another was planned: * was a discovery vessel launched in 1593. Her fate is unknown. * was an 8-gun

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launched in 1655 and sold in 1667. * was an 8-gun

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launched in 1690 and sunk as a foundation in 1712. * was an 8-gun sloop launched in 1721 and was presumed to have foundered in 1739 in the Atlantic after she left

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for England. * was a 4-gun former Dutch

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purchased in 1794 that sank at her moorings in Plymouth dockyard in 1796. * was laid down as a 74-gun

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, but was altered to carry 60 guns before being launched in 1820. She was refitted with screw propulsion in 1855 and was broken up in 1865. * was an

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launched in 1891. She was involved in a collision with the liner in 1911. A

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sank ''Hawke'' in 1914. * HMS ''Hawke'' was to have been a . Started in 1943, her hull, machinery, boilers and three triple Mk 24 DP 6-inch gun mounts were largely complete when she was cancelled in 1945 and broken up on the slipway.D.K.Brown. Rebuilding the RN- Warship design since 1945. Seaforth(2012) UK * HMS ''Hawke'' was a shore establishment at Exbury House, Hampshire, between 1946 and 1955.

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