HMS Swift is the name of numerous ships of the British Royal Navy

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was a 10-gun ship that was launched 1697 and ran aground off Port Comfort, Virginia

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 in 1698. was a sloop-of-war

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...

 of the Swift group, built in 1704 and sold in 1719. See List of corvette and sloop classes of the Royal Navy for this vessel and the four following sloops. was a sloop of the Otter group, built in 1721 and sold in 1741. was a sloop of the Drake class, built in 1741, and lost in 1756. was a 14-gun sloop of the Swift class, built in 1763. It sank at Puerto Deseado

Puerto Deseado

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, Patagonia

Patagonia

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 in 1770. was a 14-gun brigantine

Brigantine

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 captured from the United States between 1776 and 1778. was a sloop built in 1793. was a packet

Packet ship

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 brig

Brig

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 launched in 1835. was a gunvessel launched 1879, and sold in Hong Kong in 1920 for mercantile use. See List of gunboat and gunvessel classes of the Royal Navy. was a torpedo boat

Torpedo boat

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 launched between 1884 and 1887, and broken up in 1921. was a unique destroyer leader which saw service in the First World War. It was sold for breaking up in 1921. was an S class destroyer

S and T class destroyer

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 sunk by a mine off the Normandy beaches on 24 June 1944.

• HMS Swift (P243), later LÉ Orla (P41)
  LÉ Orla (P41)
  LÉ Orla 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 1985 by Hall, Russell & Company as HMS Swift ...
  
  , was a Peacock class patrol corvette
  Corvette
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   built in 1984 and transferred to the Irish Naval Service
  Irish Naval Service
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  in 1988.