Eight ships of the Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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 have been named HMS Ardent, whilst another two were planned:
was a 64-gun third rate launched in 1764. She was captured by the French

French Navy

The French Navy, officially the Marine nationale and often called La Royale is the maritime arm of the French military. It includes a full range of fighting vessels, from patrol boats to a nuclear powered aircraft carrier and 10 nuclear-powered submarines, four of which are capable of launching...

 in 1779 but was recaptured in 1782 and renamed HMS Tiger. She was sold in 1784. was a 64-gun third rate launched in 1782. She caught fire and exploded near Corsica

Corsica

Corsica is an island in the Mediterranean Sea. It is located west of Italy, southeast of the French mainland, and north of the island of Sardinia....

 in 1794. was a 64-gun third rate launched in 1796. She was used for harbour service from 1812 and was broken up in 1824. was a wooden paddle

Paddle steamer

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 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...

 launched in 1841 and scrapped in 1865.

• HMS Ardent was to have been a wooden screw sloop, but she was renamed before her launch in 1843. was an Ardent class torpedo boat
  Torpedo boat
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   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 1894 and broken up in 1911. was an Acasta-class
  Acasta class destroyer
  The Acasta class was a class of twenty destroyers built for the Royal Navy under the Naval Programme of 1911 - 1912 that saw service during World War I...
  
   destroyer launched in 1913 and sunk at the battle of Jutland
  Battle of Jutland
  The Battle of Jutland was a naval battle between the British Royal Navy's Grand Fleet and the Imperial German Navy's High Seas Fleet during the First World War. The battle was fought on 31 May and 1 June 1916 in the North Sea near Jutland, Denmark. It was the largest naval battle and the only...
  
   in 1916. 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 launched in 1929 and sunk in 1940.
• HMS Ardent was to have been an Amphion-class
  Amphion class submarine
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   submarine
  Submarine
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   but she was cancelled in 1945. 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
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   launched in 1975 and sunk in 1982 during the Falklands War
  Falklands War
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