HMS Fawn
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Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Fawn:
- HMS Fawn (1805), a 16-gun brig-sloop, originally the French ship Faune, she was captured in 1805 by GoliathHMS Goliath (1781)HMS Goliath was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line in the Royal Navy. She was launched on 19 October 1781 at Deptford Dockyard. She was present at the Battle of Cape St Vincent, Battle of the Nile, and Battle of Copenhagen. She was broken up in 1815....
in the English Channel - HMS Fawn (1807), an 18-gun sloop-of-warSloop-of-warIn 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 1807, sold in 1818 - HMS Fawn (1840), a 6-gun brigantineBrigantineIn sailing, a brigantine or hermaphrodite brig is a vessel with two masts, only the forward of which is square rigged.-Origins of the term:...
, originally the Portuguese slave ship Caroline purchased in 1840 - HMS Fawn (1856)HMS Fawn (1856)HMS Fawn was a Royal Navy 17-gun launched in 1856. She served on the Australia, North America and Pacific stations before being converted to a survey ship in 1876...
, a 17-gun wood screw sloop-of-warSloop-of-warIn 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 1856, used as a survey ship from 1876 and sold in 1884 - HMS Fawn (1897) was a Fawn class destroyerDestroyerIn 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 1897 and sold in 1919 - HMS Fawn (A325)HMS Fawn (A325)HMS Fawn, pennant number A325, was a Bulldog-class hydrographic survey ship of the British Royal Navy.]...
was a Bulldog class survey ship launched in 1968 and sold in 1991