• HMS Swallow was a ship launched in 1497 was a 53-gun ship launched in 1544, rebuilt in 1558 and 1580 and sold in 1603. was a discovery vessel listed in the Arctic in 1558 and captured by the Spanish in 1568. was an 8-gun pinnace
  Pinnace (ship's boat)
  As a ship's boat the pinnace is a light boat, propelled by sails or oars, formerly used as a "tender" for guiding merchant and war vessels. In modern parlance, pinnace has come to mean a boat associated with some kind of larger vessel, that doesn't fit under the launch or lifeboat definitions...
  
   built in 1573 and condemned in 1603. was a vessel listed in Newfoundland in 1583. was a 40-gun ship launched in 1634. She served in the 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...
  
   Navy from 1648 and was sold in 1653. was a 6-gun ketch
  Ketch
  A ketch is a sailing craft with two masts: a main mast, and a shorter mizzen mast abaft of the main mast, but forward of the rudder post. Both masts are rigged mainly fore-and-aft. From one to three jibs may be carried forward of the main mast when going to windward...
  
   launched in 1657 and given to the Irish Packet Service in 1661. was a 40-gun ship launched in 1653 as Gainsborough. She was renamed HMS Swallow in 1660 and was wrecked in 1692. was a 2-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 1672 and lost in 1673. was a 6-gun sloop launched in 1699 and captured by a 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...
  
   in 1703. was a 54-gun fourth rate launched in 1703, rebuilt in 1719 and broken up in 1728. was a 60-gun fourth rate launched in 1732. She was renamed HMS Princess Louisa in 1737 and was broken up in 1742.
• HMS Swallow was a sloop, launched in 1744 as HMS Galgo. She was renamed HMS Swallow that year, but was wrecked at the end of 1744. was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1745, used for the impress service from 1762 and sold in 1769. was a discovery vessel serving in the Pacific in 1766 and broken up in 1769. was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1769. She foundered in 1777. was a 14-gun ketch launched in 1770 and lost in 1776. was a 14-gun packet launched in 1777. She was sold to the Danish in 1780, recaptured in 1782, and possibly renamed HMS Silly. She was sold into mercantile service in 1784. was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1779 and driven ashore in 1781. was a 16-gun sloop, previously a cutter purchased on the stocks and launched in 1781. She was sold in 1795. was a tender in service between 1793 and 1795. was an 18-gun brig-sloop launched in 1795 and sold in 1802. 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 1805 and broken up in 1815. was a cutter tender launched in 1811 and lost in 1825. was a 10-gun brig-sloop, formerly the packet Marquis of Salisbury. She was purchased in 1824 and sold in 1836. was a wooden paddle packet, previously the General Post Office
  General Post Office
  General Post Office is the name of the British postal system from 1660 until 1969.General Post Office may also refer to:* General Post Office, Perth* General Post Office, Sydney* General Post Office, Melbourne* General Post Office, Brisbane...
  
   vessel Ferret. She was launched in 1831, transferred to the Royal Navy in 1837 and was broken up in 1848. was a wooden screw sloop
  Screw sloop
  A screw sloop is a propeller-driven sloop-of-war. In the 19th century, during the introduction of the steam engine, ships driven by propellers were differentiated from those driven by paddle-wheels by referring to the ship's screws...
  
   launched in 1854 and sold in 1866. was a wooden screw gunvessel
  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 1868 and sold in 1882. was a composite screw sloop 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, handed over to the breakers in part payment for RMS Majestic
  RMS Majestic (1914)
  RMS Majestic, launched in 1914 as SS Bismarck, was, at 56,551 gross tonnage, the largest ship in the world until the completion of the in 1935. Originally slated to be the third and largest member of German HAPAG Line's trio of transatlantic liners, her completion was delayed by World War I...
  
   in 1936, and subsequently broken up.
• HMS Swallow was to have been a C-class
  C class destroyer (1943)
  The C class was a class of 32 destroyers of the Royal Navy that were launched from 1943 to 1945. The class was built in four flotillas of 8 vessels, the Ca, Ch, Co and Cr classes, ordered as the 11th, 12th, 13th and 14th Emergency Flotillas respectively...
  
   destroyer. She was renamed HMS Caprice in 1942 and launched in 1943.
• HMS Swallow
  LÉ Ciara (P42)
  LÉ Ciara is a in the Irish Naval Service. Like the rest of her class, she was originally designed for use by the British Royal Navy in Hong Kong waters, and was delivered in 1984 by Hall, Russell & Company as HMS Swallow . She passed to the Irish Naval Service in 1988 and was commissioned under...
  
   was a Peacock-class patrol vessel
  Peacock class patrol vessel
  The Peacock Class is a class of patrol corvette built for the Royal Navy. Only five were ever constructed, and by 1997 all had been sold to the Irish Naval Service or the Philippine Navy.-Original use:...
  
   launched in 1984. She was sold to the Irish Naval Service
  Irish Naval Service
  The Naval Service is the navy of Ireland and is one of the three standing branches of the Irish Defence Forces. Its main base is in Haulbowline, County Cork....
  
   in 1988 and renamed LÉ Ciara
  LÉ Ciara (P42)
  LÉ Ciara is a in the Irish Naval Service. Like the rest of her class, she was originally designed for use by the British Royal Navy in Hong Kong waters, and was delivered in 1984 by Hall, Russell & Company as HMS Swallow . She passed to the Irish Naval Service in 1988 and was commissioned under...
  
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See also

• HM Revenue cutter Swallow captured the French privateer Petit Diable, of six tons tons burthen
  Builder's Old Measurement
  Builder's Old Measurement is the method of calculating the size or cargo capacity of a ship used in England from approximately 1720 to 1849. It estimated the tonnage of a ship based on length and maximum beam...
  
  , off Farleigh on 27 August 1796. Petit Diable had a crew of 14. Swallow brought her into Rye
  Rye, East Sussex
  Rye is a small town in East Sussex, England, which stands approximately two miles from the open sea and is at the confluence of three rivers: the Rother, the Tillingham and the Brede...
  
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