HMS Pique

Seven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS ''Pique'':

* was formerly the French ship ''Pique'', a 38-gun fifth rate captured by in 1795. HMS ''Pique'' was wrecked in action with the French ship in 1798.
* HMS ''Pique'' was formerly the French ship ''Pallas'', a 36-gun fifth rate, captured in 1800 by a squadron off the coast of France. She was initially named HMS ''Aeolus'' but renamed to ''Pique'' in 1801. Because ''Pique'' served in the navy's Egyptian campaign (2 March to 8 September 1801), her officers and crew qualified for the clasp "Egypt" to the Naval General Service Medal, which the Admiralty issued in 1847 to all surviving claimants. She was sold for breaking up in 1819.
* HMS ''Pique'' was a 46-gun fifth rate ordered in 1825, but cancelled in 1832.
* was a 36-gun fifth rate launched in 1834, and sent to the eastern Mediterranean in 1840 as part of a squadron under . She was converted to a receiving ship in 1872, lent as a hospital hulk in 1882 and sold in 1910.
* was an second-class cruiser, launched in 1890 and sold to the breakers in 1911.
* HMS ''Pique'' was a ordered in April 1942, but cancelled in November, and reordered as .
* was a , previously planned to be named HMS ''Celerity'', but renamed in 1942. She was transferred to the Royal Navy under the terms of Lend Lease in 1942 and returned to the United States Navy in 1946. She was transferred to Turkey in March 1947 and renamed ''Ereğli''. She was stricken in 1973.

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Royal Navy ship names