• Antelope was a galleass
  Galleass
  The galleass developed from large merchant galleys.Converted for military use they were higher and larger than regular galleys. They had up to 32 oars, each worked by up to 5 men. They usually had three masts and a forecastle and aftcastle. Much effort was made in Venice to make these galleasses...
  
   carrying between 38 and 44 guns. She was launched in 1546, rebuilt three times and was burned by parliamentarian sailors at Hellevoetsluis
  Hellevoetsluis
  Hellevoetsluis is a small city and municipality on Voorne-Putten Island in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland...
  
   in 1649.
• Antelope
  English ship Antelope (1651)
  Antelope was a 56-gun third rate great frigate of the navy of the Commonwealth of England, launched at Woolwich Dockyard in 1651.Antelope was wrecked in 1652....
  
   was a 56-gun third-rate
  Third-rate
  In the British Royal Navy, a third rate was a ship of the line which from the 1720s mounted between 64 and 80 guns, typically built with two gun decks . Years of experience proved that the third rate ships embodied the best compromise between sailing ability , firepower, and cost...
  
   great frigate launched in 1651 and wrecked in 1652. was a 40-gun fourth-rate
  Fourth-rate
  In the British Royal Navy, a fourth rate was, during the first half of the 18th century, a ship of the line mounting from 46 up to 60 guns. While the number of guns stayed subsequently in the same range up until 1817, after 1756 the ships of 50 guns and below were considered too weak to stand in...
  
   frigate launched in 1653 as Preston and renamed in 1660. She was sold in 1693. was a 54-gun fourth rate launched in 1703. She was rebuilt in 1741 and was sold in 1783. was a 14-gun sloop
  Sloop-of-war
  In the 18th and most of the 19th centuries, a sloop-of-war was a warship with a single gun deck that carried up to eighteen guns. As the rating system covered all vessels with 20 guns and above, this meant that the term sloop-of-war actually encompassed all the unrated combat vessels including the...
  
   purchased in 1784, and lost in a hurricane later that year. was a 14-gun brig
  Brig
  A brig is a sailing vessel with two square-rigged masts. During the Age of Sail, brigs were seen as fast and manoeuvrable and were used as both naval warships and merchant vessels. They were especially popular in the 18th and early 19th centuries...
  
   launched in 1793 and sold after 1830. was a 50-gun fourth rate launched in 1802. She was used as a troopship
  Troopship
  A troopship is a ship used to carry soldiers, either in peacetime or wartime...
  
   from 1818, was placed on harbour service from 1824 and was broken up in 1845. was a 14-gun schooner
  Schooner
  A schooner is a type of sailing vessel characterized by the use of fore-and-aft sails on two or more masts with the forward mast being no taller than the rear masts....
  
  , the ex-Spanish prize Firefly. She was purchased in 1808 and broken up in 1814. was an Antelope-class iron paddle sloop launched in 1846 and sold in 1883. was an Alarm-class
  Alarm class torpedo gunboat
  The Alarm-class torpedo gunboat was the penultimate class of torpedo gunboat built for the Royal Navy. The class was contemporary with the early torpedo boat destroyers, which were faster and better suited to accompanting the battlefleet. By World War I the class had either been sold, converted...
  
   torpedo gunboat
  Torpedo gunboat
  In late 19th-century naval terminology, torpedo gunboats or, in north European usage, torpedo cruisers, were a form of gunboat armed with torpedoes and designed for hunting and destroying smaller torpedo boats...
  
   launched in 1893. She was used for harbour service from 1910 and was sold in 1919. was an A-class
  A class destroyer
  The A class was a flotilla of eight destroyers built for the Royal Navy as part of the 1927 naval programme. A ninth ship, Codrington, was built to an enlarged design to act as the flotilla leader...
  
   destroyer
  Destroyer
  In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast and maneuverable yet long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet, convoy or battle group and defend them against smaller, powerful, short-range attackers. Destroyers, originally called torpedo-boat destroyers in 1892, evolved from...
  
   launched in 1929 and sold in 1946. was a Type 21
  Type 21 frigate
  The Type 21 frigate or Amazon-class frigate was a Royal Navy general-purpose escort designed in the late 1960s, built in the 1970s and that served throughout the 1980s into the 1990s.-History:...
  
   frigate
  Frigate
  A frigate is any of several types of warship, the term having been used for ships of various sizes and roles over the last few centuries.In the 17th century, the term was used for any warship built for speed and maneuverability, the description often used being "frigate-built"...
  
   launched in 1972 and bombed and sunk in the Falklands War
  Falklands War
  The Falklands War , also called the Falklands Conflict or Falklands Crisis, was fought in 1982 between Argentina and the United Kingdom over the disputed Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands...
  
   in 1982.

See also

• Antelope was a 6-gun West Indian packet ship
  Packet ship
  A "packet ship" was originally a vessel employed to carry post office mail packets to and from British embassies, colonies and outposts. In sea transport, a packet service is a regular, scheduled service, carrying freight and passengers...
  
   that was attacked and captured in 1782.
• Antelope is a fictitious 18th century privateer
  Privateer
  A privateer is a private person or ship authorized by a government by letters of marque to attack foreign shipping during wartime. Privateering was a way of mobilizing armed ships and sailors without having to spend public money or commit naval officers...
  
   in Stan Rogers
  Stan Rogers
  Stanley Allison "Stan" Rogers was a Canadian folk musician and songwriter.Rogers was noted for his rich, baritone voice and his finely crafted, traditional-sounding songs which were frequently inspired by Canadian history and the daily lives of working people, especially those from the fishing...
  
  's song Barrett's Privateers
  Barrett's Privateers
  "Barrett's Privateers" is a folk song in the style of a sea shanty, written and performed by Canadian musician Stan Rogers, having been inspired after a song session with the Friends of Fiddler's Green at the Northern Lights Festival Boréal in Sudbury, Ontario...