Twelve ships of the Royal Navy

Royal Navy

The Royal Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Founded in the 16th century, it is the oldest service branch and is known as the Senior Service...

 have borne the name HMS Scout:
was a 10-gun bark

Barque

A barque, barc, or bark is a type of sailing vessel with three or more masts.- History of the term :The word barque appears to have come from the Greek word baris, a term for an Egyptian boat. This entered Latin as barca, which gave rise to the Italian barca, Spanish barco, and the French barge and...

 launched in 1577 and condemned in 1603. was a 6-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 1648 and captured in 1649 by the Royalists

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...

. was a 6-gun advice boat launched in 1694 and sold in 1703. was a 16-gun brig-sloop launched in 1780 after having been purchased on the stocks. The French frigates Alceste and Vestale captured her on 4 August 1794 off Cape Bon (or Bona) and she was later wrecked.

• HMS Scout
  French corvette Vénus (1794)
  Vénus was a corvette of the French Navy that the British captured in 1800.French sources refer to her as a corvette of 28-guns, however in British service she was classified as a sloop...
  
   was an 18-gun sloop, previously the French corvette Vénus, captured on 22 October 1800 and wrecked on 25 March 1801 off the Isle of Wight with no loss of life. 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...
  
   Premier Consul. captured her on 5 March 1801; she foundered in 1801 or 1802 off Newfoundland with the loss of all hands. Her captain was Henry Duncan, who had just lost his previous sloop Scout. was an 18-gun Cruizer-class
  Cruizer class brig-sloop
  The Cruizer class was an 18-gun class of brig-sloops of the Royal Navy. Brig-sloops were the same as ship-sloops except for their rigging...
  
   brig-sloop launched in 1804 and sold in 1827. was an 18-gun sloop launched in 1832 and broken up in 1852. was a wooden screw corvette
  Corvette
  A corvette is a small, maneuverable, lightly armed warship, originally smaller than a frigate and larger than a coastal patrol craft or fast attack craft , although many recent designs resemble frigates in size and role...
  
   launched in 1856 and broken up in 1877. was a coastguard
  Her Majesty's Coastguard
  Her Majesty's Coastguard is the service of the government of the United Kingdom concerned with co-ordinating air-sea rescue.HM Coastguard is a section of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency responsible for the initiation and co-ordination of all civilian maritime Search and Rescue within the UK...
  
   cutter built in 1861 and sold in 1870. was a torpedo cruiser launched in 1885 and sold in 1904. was an S-class
  S class destroyer (1916)
  The S class were a class of 67 destroyers built from 1917 for the Royal Navy. The design was based on the Admiralty modified R class and all ships had names beginning with S or T....
  
   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 1918 and broken up in 1946.