Two ships of the
Royal Navy have been named HMS ''Ostrich'', after the
bird:
* was a 14-gun
sloop
A sloop is a sailboat with a single mast typically having only one headsail in front of the mast and one mainsail aft of (behind) the mast. Such an arrangement is called a fore-and-aft rig, and can be rigged as a Bermuda rig with triangular sa ...
purchased in 1777 and sold in 1782.
* was a launched in 1900 and sold in 1920.
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Royal Navy ship names