Five ships and a shore establishment of the Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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 have borne the name HMS Goshawk, after the bird of prey

Bird of prey

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, the goshawk. A sixth ship was renamed before being launched:

Ships was a 16-gun brig-sloop launched in 1806 and wrecked in 1813. was an 18-gun brig-sloop launched in 1814 and shipped to Canada for completion. She was found to be unsuitable and was sold in 1815.

• HMS Goshawk was to have been a 12-gun brig-sloop but she was renamed in 1845 before being launched in 1847. was an Albacore-class wooden screw gunboat
  Gunboat
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   launched in 1856 and broken up in 1869. was a composite screw gunboat launched in 1872. She was hulked in 1902 and sold c. 1906. was an Acheron-class
  Acheron class destroyer
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   destroyer
  Destroyer
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   launched in 1911 and sold in 1921.

Shore establishment was a Royal Naval Air Station at Trinidad

Trinidad

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, commissioned in 1940 and paid off in 1946.