• HMS Hunter was a dogger
  Dogger (boat)
  The dogger was a form of fishing boat, developed during the seventeenth century, that commonly operated in the North Sea. The dogger takes its name from the Dutch word dogger, meaning a fishing vessel operating a trawl...
  
   captured in 1646 and sold in 1649.
• HMS Hunter was a 10-gun fire ship
  Fire ship
  A fire ship, used in the days of wooden rowed or sailing ships, was a ship filled with combustibles, deliberately set on fire and steered into an enemy fleet, in order to destroy ships, or to create panic and make the enemy break formation. Ships used as fire ships were usually old and worn out or...
  
  , previously the French 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...
  
   Chasseur, captured in 1652. She was burnt in 1653.
• HMS Hunter was a 6-gun Royalist
  Cavalier
  Cavalier was the name used by Parliamentarians for a Royalist supporter of King Charles I and son Charles II during the English Civil War, the Interregnum, and the Restoration...
  
   vessel, captured by the Parliamentarians
  Roundhead
  "Roundhead" was the nickname given to the supporters of the Parliament during the English Civil War. Also known as Parliamentarians, they fought against King Charles I and his supporters, the Cavaliers , who claimed absolute power and the divine right of kings...
  
   in 1656. She foundered in 1661.
• HMS Hunter was a 30-gun fifth rate captured from the Dutch in 1672. She was on the Navy List
  Navy List
  A Navy List or Naval Register is an official list of naval officers, their ranks and seniority, the ships which they command or to which they are appointed, etc., that is published by the government or naval authorities of a country....
  
   until 1677.
• HMS Hunter was a 4-gun sloop launched in 1673 and sold in 1683.
• HMS Hunter was an 8-gun fire ship launched in 1690. She was rebuilt as a 24-gun sixth rate in 1710 and was captured by the Spanish later that year.
• HMS Hunter was a 10-gun fire ship purchased in 1739 and renamed HMS Vulcan in 1740. She was hulked in 1743.
• HMS Hunter was a 10-gun sloop launched in 1756. She was captured in 1775 by an American 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...
  
  , but was recaptured in 1776 by HMS Greyhound. Hunter was declared unfit for service and sold in 1780.
• HMS Hunter was an 8-gun cutter purchased in 1763 and sold in 1771.
• HMS Hunter was a 16-gun sloop purchased on the stocks in 1796 and wrecked in 1797.
• HMS Hunter was an 18-gun brig-sloop purchased in 1801 and broken up in 1809.
• HMS Hunter
  HMS Hunter (1812)
  HMS Hunter was a 10-gun brig of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1812 and served on the Canadian Lakes during the War of 1812. Shortly after entering service she covered the British attack on Fort Shelby. She was part of a squadron under Commander Robert Heriot Barclay on Lake Erie in 1813 and...
  
   was a 10-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 1812 and captured by the Americans in 1813.
• HMS Hunter was a Clown class wood screw gunboat
  Gunboat
  A gunboat is a naval watercraft designed for the express purpose of carrying one or more guns to bombard coastal targets, as opposed to those military craft designed for naval warfare, or for ferrying troops or supplies.-History:...
  
   launched in 1856. She was placed on the sale list in 1869 and was sold in 1884.
• HMS Hunter
  HMS Hunter (1895)
  HMS Hunter was a which served with the Royal Navy. She was built by the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company yard in 1895, spent her career in home waters and was sold in 1912....
  
   was a Handy class
  Handy class destroyer
  Three Handy class destroyers served with the Royal Navy. , and were all built by Fairfield. The ships displaced 275 tons, were 194 feet long and their 4,000 h.p. Thornycroft boilers produced 27 knots. They were armed with one twelve pounder and two torpedo tubes. They carried a complement of...
  
   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 1895 and sold in 1912.
• HMS Hunter
  HMS Hunter (H35)
  HMS Hunter was a H-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1930s. During the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939 the ship enforced the arms blockade imposed on both sides by Britain and France, until she struck a mine in May 1937. She was under repair for the next year and a half, after...
  
   was an H class
  G and H class destroyer
  The G- and H-class destroyers were a class of twenty-four destroyers of the Royal Navy launched in 1935–1939. They served in World War II and sixteen were lost, with a seventeenth being written off as a constructive total loss...
  
   destroyer launched in 1936 and sunk in 1940.
• HMS Hunter
  HMS Hunter (D80)
  USS Block Island was an Attacker-class escort aircraft carrier that served during World War II....
  
   was a Bogue class
  Bogue class escort carrier
  The Bogue-class were a group of escort carriers built in the United States for service with the U.S. Navy and the Royal Navy during World War II....
  
   escort carrier, launched for the US Navy as USS Block Island, loaned to the Royal Navy, at first as HMS Trailer and then from late 1942 as HMS Hunter. She was returned to the US Navy in 1945.
• HMS Hunter was a Tank landing ship launched in 1945 as HMS LST 3042. She was renamed HMS Hunter in 1947, and transferred to the Ministry of Transport
  Department for Transport
  In the United Kingdom, the Department for Transport is the government department responsible for the English transport network and a limited number of transport matters in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland which are not devolved...
  
   in 1956, being renamed . She was broken up in 1962.
• HMS Hunter was an Attacker class
  Attacker class patrol boat
  The Attacker class is a class of patrol boats. Formerly operated by the Royal Navy and the HM Customs, seven of the class are currently operated by the Lebanese Navy and two by Lebanese Customs...
  
   patrol and training boat launched in 1983 and sold to Lebanon in 1991.

Battle Honours

• Gabbard 1653
  Battle of the Gabbard
  The naval Battle of the Gabbard, also known as the Battle of Gabbard Bank, the Battle of the North Foreland or the second Battle of Nieuwpoort took place on 2–3 June 1653 according to the Old Style of Julian calendar then used in England during the First Anglo-Dutch War near the Gabbard...
  
  
• Scheveningen 1653
  Battle of Scheveningen
  The Battle of Scheveningen was the final naval battle of the First Anglo-Dutch War...
  
  
• Barfleur 1692
• Vigo 1702
  Battle of Vigo Bay
  The Battle of Vigo Bay, also known as the Battle of Rande , was a naval engagement fought on 23 October 1702 during the opening years of the War of the Spanish Succession. The engagement followed an Anglo-Dutch attempt to capture the Spanish port of Cádiz in September in an effort to secure a naval...
  
  
• Velez Malaga 1704
• Louisbourg 1758
  Siege of Louisbourg (1758)
  The Siege of Louisbourg was a pivotal battle of the Seven Years' War in 1758 which ended the French colonial era in Atlantic Canada and led directly to the loss of Quebec in 1759 and the remainder of French North America the following year.-Background:The British government realized that with the...
  
  
• Quebec 1759
  Battle of the Plains of Abraham
  The Battle of the Plains of Abraham, also known as the Battle of Quebec, was a pivotal battle in the Seven Years' War...
  
  
• Atlantic 1939-44
• Narvik 1940
  Battles of Narvik
  The Battles of Narvik were fought from 9 April-8 June 1940 as a naval battle in the Ofotfjord and as a land battle in the mountains surrounding the north Norwegian city of Narvik as part of the Norwegian Campaign of the Second World War....
  
  
• Salerno 1943
  Allied invasion of Italy
  The Allied invasion of Italy was the Allied landing on mainland Italy on September 3, 1943, by General Harold Alexander's 15th Army Group during the Second World War. The operation followed the successful invasion of Sicily during the Italian Campaign...
  
  
• South France 1944
  Operation Dragoon
  Operation Dragoon was the Allied invasion of southern France on August 15, 1944, during World War II. The invasion was initiated via a parachute drop by the 1st Airborne Task Force, followed by an amphibious assault by elements of the U.S. Seventh Army, followed a day later by a force made up...
  
  
• Aegean 1944
• Burma 1945
  Burma Campaign
  The Burma Campaign in the South-East Asian Theatre of World War II was fought primarily between British Commonwealth, Chinese and United States forces against the forces of the Empire of Japan, Thailand, and the Indian National Army. British Commonwealth land forces were drawn primarily from...