Ten ships and one shore establishment of the British
Royal Navy
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have been named HMS ''Hornet'', after the
insect
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* , a 14-gun
sloop launched in 1745. She was in French hands between 1746 and 1747, and was sold in 1770.
* , a 16-gun
cutter
Cutter may refer to:
Tools
* Bolt cutter
* Box cutter
* Cigar cutter
* Cookie cutter
* Cutter (hydraulic rescue tool)
* Glass cutter
* Meat cutter
* Milling cutter
* Paper cutter
* Pizza cutter
* Side cutter
People
* Cutter (surname)
* Cutt ...
purchased in 1763 and sold in 1772.
* , a 14-gun sloop launched in 1776 and sold in 1791.
* , a 16-gun sloop launched in 1794, hospital ship from 1805 to 1811, and sold in 1817.
* , a 4-gun Dutch
hoy
Hoy may refer to:
People
Given name
* Hoy Menear (died 2023), American politician
* Hoy Phallin (born 1995), Cambodian footballer
* Hoy Wong (1920–2009), American bartender
Surname
* Hoy (surname), a Scottish and Irish surname
* HÃ ...
purchased as a
gunvessel
A gunboat is a naval watercraft designed for the express purpose of carrying one or more guns to bombard coastal targets, as opposed to those military craft designed for naval warfare, or for ferrying troops or supplies.
History Pre-steam ...
in 1794 and broken up in 1795.
* , a 6-gun
schooner
A schooner ( ) is a type of sailing ship, sailing vessel defined by its Rig (sailing), rig: fore-and-aft rigged on all of two or more Mast (sailing), masts and, in the case of a two-masted schooner, the foremast generally being shorter than t ...
launched in 1831 and completed as a
brigantine
A brigantine is a two-masted sailing vessel with a fully square-rigged foremast and at least two sails on the main mast: a square topsail and a gaff sail mainsail (behind the mast). The main mast is the second and taller of the two masts.
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. She was broken up in 1845.
* , a wooden screw sloop, initially ordered as a schooner, launched in 1854 and broken up in 1868.
* , a composite screw gunvessel launched in 1868 and sold in 1889.
* , a launched in 1893 and broken up in 1909.
* , an launched in 1911 and broken up in 1921.
* , a
stone frigate
A stone frigate is a naval establishment on land.
'Stone frigate' is an informal term which has its origin in Britain's Royal Navy (RN), after its use of Diamond Rock, an island off Martinique, as a 'sloop of war' to harass the First French ...
, a
Coastal Forces Base at
Gosport
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formed around 1941 and disbanded in 1956.
References
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Royal Navy ship names