Twelve ships of the

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have borne the name HMS ''Scout'': * was a 10-gun

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launched in 1577 and condemned in 1603. * was a 6-gun sloop launched in 1648 and captured in 1649 by the

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. * was a 6-gun advice boat launched in 1694 and sold in 1703. * was a 16-gun

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launched in 1780 after having been purchased on the stocks. The French frigates and ''Vestale'' captured her on 4 August 1794 off

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(or Bona); the French took her into service as ''Scout'', but she was wrecked on 12 December 1795 off Cadiz. * HMS ''Scout'' was an 18-gun sloop, previously the French corvette ''Vénus'', captured on 22 October 1800 and wrecked on 25 March 1801 off the Isle of Wight with no loss of life.Gossett (1986), p 32. * HMS ''Scout'' was a sloop, previously the French 14-gun

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. captured her on 5 March 1801; she foundered in 1801 or 1802 off Newfoundland with the loss of all hands. * was an 18-gun launched in 1804 and sold in 1827. She then became the

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''Diana'', which made four whaling voyages between 1829 and April 1843 when she was condemned following an on-board explosion. * was an 18-gun sloop launched in 1832 and broken up in 1852. * was a wooden screw

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launched in 1856 and broken up in 1877. * was a

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built in 1861 and sold in 1870. * was a

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launched in 1885 and sold in 1904. * was an launched in 1918 and broken up in 1946.

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