Sixteen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Cygnet, the name given to a young swan:
HMS Cygnet (1585) was a 3-gun pink built in 1585 and condemned in 1603.
HMS Cygnet (1643) was a 10-gun ship, originally a privateer. She was purchased in 1643 and sold in 1654.
HMS Cygnet (1657) was an 8-gun sloop launched in 1657 and sold in 1664.
HMS Cygnet (1684) was a survey vessel purchased in 1684. She foundered in 1687.
HMS Cygnet (1688) was an 8-gun fireship purchased in 1688 and captured by the French in 1693.
HMS Cygnet (1758) was an 18-gun sloop, formerly the French Guirlande. She was captured in 1758 and sold in 1768.
HMS Cygnet (1776) was a 14-gun Swan-class ship sloop launched in 1776 and sold in 1802.
HMS Cygnet (1804) was a 16-gun Merlin-class ship-sloop launched in 1804 and wrecked in 1815.
HMS Cygnet (1819) was a 10-gun Cherokee-class brig-sloop launched in 1819 that became a Post Office Packet Service packet, sailing out of Falmouth, Cornwall. She was sold in 1835.
HMS Cygnet (1840) was an 8-gun Alert-class brig-sloop launched in 1840, renamed WV30 when handed to HM Coastguard in 1863, and broken up by 1877.
HMS Cygnet (1860) was a Philomel-class wooden screw gunvessel launched in 1860 and broken up in 1868.
HMS Cygnet (1874) was a Forester-class composite screw gunboat launched in 1874 and broken up in 1889.
HMS Cygnet (1898) was a D-class destroyer launched in 1898 and sold in 1920.
HMS Cygnet (H83) was a C-class destroyer launched in 1931. She was transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy as the River-class destroyer HMCS St. Laurent in 1937 and was sold for scrapping in 1947.
HMS Cygnet (U38) was a Black Swan-class sloop launched in 1942 and broken up in 1956.
HMS Cygnet (P261) was a Bird-class patrol vessel launched in 1975 and sold in 1996.
List of ships with the same or similar names
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borne the name HMSCygnet, the name given to a young swan: HMSCygnet (1585) was a 3-gun pink built in 1585 and condemned in 1603. HMSCygnet (1643) was a...
1982 he was Navigating Officer of the destroyer HMS Sheffield. He took command of the patrol boat HMSCygnet off Northern Ireland in 1982, as part of the...
and sold in 1808. HMS Vigilant (1806) was previously the French schooner Impériale, that the packet Duke of Montrose and HMSCygnet captured in 1806....
(also Red Galley); listed 1544 to 1560. HMS Subtle (1806) was previously the French schooner Impériale that HMSCygnet captured in 1806; she received the name...
War. HMS Alexandra HMS Superb HMS Sultan HMS Temeraire HMS Inflexible HMS Monarch HMS Invincible HMS Penelope HMS Hecla HMS Helicon HMS Bittern HMS Beacon...
HMT Cygnet. She was the only ship of her class lost in the war. Fraccaroli states that Garibaldino collided with the British destroyer HMSCygnet, and...
features the characters based on British C–class destroyers HMSCygnet, HMS Crescent and HMS Comet sampling the food of various countries represented in-game...
British Tradition". www.historicalrfa.org. Retrieved 15 August 2021. "HMSCygnet (U 38) of the Royal Navy - British Sloop of the Modified Black Swan class...
minesweeper HMSCygnet (H83) UK combat vessel destroyer HMS Dacres (K472) UK combat vessel frigate HMS Danae (D44) UK combat vessel light cruiser HMS Decoy (H75)...
Britten-Norman Defender surveillance aircraft HMS Bildeston HMSCygnetHMS Kingfisher HMS Fearless (Operation Motorman) HMS Maidstone (as a prison ship) The British...
Science. In 1986 he was appointed commanding officer of the patrol boat HMSCygnet of the Northern Ireland Squadron. Morisetti was later Principal Warfare...
appointed to her, and took up a post as commander of the sloop HMS Ferret, moving to command HMSCygnet in November that year. He was subsequently heavily involved...
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