Seven ships of the

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have borne the name HMS ''Hazard'': * was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1711. She was wrecked in 1714 off

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. * was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1744. She was in the hands of the

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in 1745–46. She was sold in 1749. * was an 8-gun sloop launched in 1749 that the Navy sold in 1783. She became the mercantile ''Joseph'' and then between 1793 and 1802 she made seven voyages as a

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. A French privateer captured her in 1800, but HMS ''Fisgard'' quickly recaptured her. * was a 16-gun sloop launched in 1794. She was sold in 1817. * was an 18-gun sloop launched in 1837. She was sold in 1866. * was an launched in 1894. She was converted to a

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in 1901 and was sunk in 1918 in a collision in the

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. * was a launched in 1937. She was sold in 1949. ''also'' * was the 8-gun privateer sloop ''Subtile'' that captured from the French in 1756. She was sold in 1759.

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