Four ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS ''Pandour'', after the Pandurs, an 18th-century force of Croatian soldiers (e.g. Trenck's Pandurs), who served the

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as skirmishers and who had a reputation for brutality: * HMS ''Pandour'' (1795) was the French 14-gun

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, launched in 1780, that the British captured in 1795 and renamed HMS ''Pandour'' or ''Pandora''; she foundered in the North Sea in 1797. * HMS ''Pandour'', was the French 16-gun privateer ship-sloop , which captured in March 1798.The Royal Navy renamed her HMS ''Pandour'', but never commissioned her. In 1800 she was renamed HMS ''Wolf'' and was broken up in 1802. * HMS ''Pandour'' was the Dutch 44-gun frigate , launched in 1784, that the British captured in 1799, fitted out and transferred to the Transport Board in 1800, commissioned in 1803, converted to a floating battery in 1804, and transferred to Customs as a store hulk in 1805. The Admiralty offered her for sale at Portsmouth in May 1814. * HMS ''Pandour'' was a 22-gun , begun under the name ''Pandour'' in 1805, but renamed before being launched in 1806; she was broken up in 1816.

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