• HMS Hawk was a 10-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...
  
   launched in 1741 and broken up in 1747.
• HMS Hawk was a 10-gun sloop launched in 1756. She was captured by the French in 1759, but was retaken in 1761. She was then sold in 1781.
• HMS Hawk is recorded as being a 10-gun sloop launched in 1761, though she may be the previous HMS Hawk after a rebuild.
• HMS Hawk was a 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....
  
   in service from 1775. She was captured by the Americans in 1776.
• HMS Hawk was a 16-gun sloop launched in 1793 and broken up in 1803.
• HMS Hawk was a 4-gun storeship. She was an ex-hoy
  Hoy (boat)
  A hoy was a small sloop-rigged coasting ship or a heavy barge used for freight, usually displacing about 60 tons. The word derives from the Middle Dutch hoey. In 1495, one of the Paston Letters included the phrase, An hoye of Dorderycht , in such a way as to indicate that such contact was then...
  
   purchased in 1794 and lost in 1796.
• HMS Hawk was a galley in service in 1795 and sold in 1796.
• HMS Hawk was an 18-gun sloop, previously the French 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...
  
   Atalante. She was captured in 1803 by HMS Plantagenet
  HMS Plantagenet (1801)
  HMS Plantagenet was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 22 October 1801 at Woolwich. She was designed by Sir William Rule as one of the 'large class' 74s, and was the only ship built to her draught...
  
   and foundered in 1804.
• HMS Hawk was a 16-gun brig-sloop, previously the French ship Lutin. She was captured in 1806 by HMS Agamemnon
  HMS Agamemnon (1781)
  HMS Agamemnon was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She saw service in the American Revolutionary, French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and fought in many of the major naval battles of those conflicts...
  
   and HMS Carysfort
  HMS Carysfort (1766)
  HMS Carysfort was a 28-gun Coventry-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She served during the American War of Independence, the French Revolutionary and the Napoleonic Wars in a career that spanned over forty years....
  
  , and was renamed HMS Buzzard in 1812. She was sold in 1814.
• HMS Hawk was a screw coastguard vessel launched in 1869. She was renamed HMS Amelia in 1888.
• HMS Hawk was a coastguard vessel. She had been launched in 1884 and had previously been in civilian service as Lady Aline. She was purchased by the Navy in 1888 and briefly named HMS Oberon before being named HMS Hawk. She was renamed HMS Undine in 1904 and was sold in 1906.

See also

• Royal Navy ships named HMS Hawke
  HMS Hawke
  Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Hawke, after an archaic spelling of the bird, the hawk. Two of the later ships were named after Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, whilst another was planned:...
  
  , two ships of the Royal Australian Navy, several ships of the U.S. Navy