Fifteen ships of the

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have borne the name ''Hound'': * was a 36-gun ship captured in 1652, a

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in 1656 and broken up in 1660. * was an 18-gun ship captured in 1656 and expended as a

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in 1666. * was a 4-gun sloop built in 1673 and sold in 1686. * was an 8-gun fire ship launched in 1690 and expended in 1692. * was a 4-gun sloop launched in 1700 and broken up in 1714. * was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1732 and broken up in 1745. * was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1745 and sold in 1773. * was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1776. She was in French hands between 1780 and 1782, when she was renamed ''Levrette''. She was recaptured and broken up in 1784. * was a 16-gun sloop launched in 1790. In 1794 the French frigates and ''Galatee'' captured her in the Atlantic. She became the

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corvette ''Levrette'' (or ''Levrette No.2''), and was last listed in 1796. * was a 16-gun brig-sloop launched in 1796 and wrecked in 1800 off

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, together with all her crew of 120 men and 45 Dutch prisoners of war.Grocott (1896), p.99. * was a 16-gun sloop previously named ''Monarch''. She was purchased in 1801, converted to a

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in 1808 and broken up in 1812. *HMS ''Hound'' was to have been an 8-gun

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, ordered in 1839 from

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. The order was cancelled in 1844 and transferred to

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where she was completed as the next HMS ''Hound''. * was an 8-gun brig launched in 1846, used as a breakwater from 1872 and sold in 1887. *HMS ''Hound'' was to have been an , but was renamed in 1855, prior to launching. * was an launched in 1942 and broken up in 1962.

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* *Grocott, Terence (1997) ''Shipwrecks of the revolutionary & Napoleonic eras'' (Chatham). {{DEFAULTSORT:Hound, Hms Royal Navy ship names