HMS Fawn
List of ships with the same or similar names
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Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Fawn:
- HMS Fawn (1805), a 16-gun brig-corvette, originally the French ship Faune, that Goliath captured in the English Channel in 1805 and that disappears from the records in 1806.
- HMS Fawn (1807), an 18-gun sloop-of-war launched in 1807, sold in 1818; she then made seven whaling voyages from 1820 until she was broken up in 1844.
- HMS Fawn (1840), a 6-gun brigantine, originally the Portuguese slaver Caroline, captured by HMS Electra on 25 March 1839 near Rio de Janeiro.[1] She was purchased there on 27 May 1840, converted in 1842 to a tank (water) vessel at the Cape of Good Hope Station, and sold in May 1847 to the Natal Colonial Government.[2][3]
- HMS Fawn (1856), a 17-gun wood screw sloop-of-war launched in 1856, used as a survey ship from 1876 and sold in 1884
- HMS Fawn (1897) was a Fawn-class destroyer launched in 1897 and sold in 1919
- HMS Fawn (A325) was a Bulldog-class survey ship launched in 1968 and sold in 1991
Battle honours
Ships named Fawn have earned the following battle honours:[note 1]
- Gabbard, 1653
- Martinique, 1809
- Guadeloupe, 1810
- Belgian Coast, 1914−18
