Six vessels of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Sylph after the air spirits known as sylphs:
HMS Sylph (1776) was a 14-gun sloop purchased by the Royal Navy in 1776, previously the merchant Lovely Lass. She was renamed Lightning when she became a fire ship in 1779. She was sold in 1783.
HMS Sylph (1780) was an 18-gun sloop purchased by the Royal Navy in 1780, previously the merchant cutter Active. She was captured by France in 1782 and served that country until 1788.
HMS Sylph (1795) was an 18-gun Albatross-class sloop launched in 1795. She played a key role in the action of 12 May 1796 before being broken up in 1811.
HMS Sylph (1812) was an 18-gun Bermuda-class brig-sloop launched in 1812 and wrecked in 1815.
HMS Sylph (1832) was a 2-gun cutter launched in 1821 for the Post Office Packet Service but was never used. She was taken up by the Royal Navy in 1832 as a tender and lent to HM Customs as a watch vessel in 1862. She was sold in 1888.
HMS Sylph (1916) was an R-class destroyer launched in 1916. In 1917 she collided with and sank her sister ship HMS Setter. She was sold in 1926 but stranded on her way to the breakers in 1927.
Six vessels of the Royal Navy have been named HMSSylph after the air spirits known as sylphs: HMSSylph (1776) was a 14-gun sloop purchased by the Royal...
Mercurius, that HMSSylph captured in 1796. Hermes foundered in 1797. HMS Hermes (1798) was a 22-gun ship purchased in 1798 and sold in 1802. HMS Hermes (1803)...
sloop HMS Viper (1746), launched in 1746, was converted to a fire ship and renamed Lightning in 1755. She was sold in 1762 The 14-gun sloop HMSSylph (1776)...
pursued by the frigate HMS Pegasus and brig-sloop HMSSylph. After a lengthy chase, Phoenix caught the cutter Duke of York, Sylph seized the brig Mercury...
Goodwin Keats, in HMS Boadicea. Keats immediately divided his forces, ordering HMS Ethalion under Captain George Countess and the brig HMSSylph under Commander...
Wars. He achieved most of his fame in the late 1790s as the commander of HMSSylph, a small brig operating in Northern European waters. White was able to...
Nonpareil. Beaulieu was sailing in company with the 18-gun sloop of war HMSSylph on the morning of 27 August 1800 when they captured the French letter...
14-gun packet ship was captured on 24 March by the Royal Navy's HMS Mermaid and HMSSylph. Good Union ( Great Britain): The privateer was captured in the...
Machias. The force consisted of five warships: HMS Dragon (74), HMS Endymion (40), HMS Bacchante (38), HMSSylph (18), a large tender, and ten transports carrying...
making for the Gironde estuary. The 32-gun HMS Galatea, under Captain Richard Goodwin Keats, and the brig HMSSylph, made French signals to fool the French...
ashore and wrecked on the Îles des Saintes in an engagaement with HMS Anson and HMSSylph (both Royal Navy). La Freedom French Navy War of the First Coalition:...
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