Ten ships of the
Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against F ...
have been named HMS ''Beaver'', after the animal, the
beaver
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*, a ketch in the Royalist navy, captured by Parliamentary forces in 1656 and broken up two years later.
*, 18, a sloop originally called ''Trudaine'' and operating as a French privateer, but captured in 1757 and renamed before being sold in 1761.
*, 14, a sloop launched in 1761 and sold in 1783.
*, 14, a sloop launched in 1795 and sold in 1808.
*, 10, a launched in 1809 and sold in 1829
*, a wooden paddle packet originally operating as a Post Office vessel but transferred to the Royal Navy in 1837. It became a dockyard lighter in 1845.
*, an launched in 1855 and broken up in 1864. This vessel was built hastily of unseasoned wood with the result that she was unsound and saw no service at all.
[HMS ''Beaver']
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*, a 125-ton tender transferred from the
War Department (United Kingdom), War Department to the Royal Navy in 1905 and sold in 1911.
*, an launched in 1911 and sold in 1921.
*, a
Type 22, or ''Broadsword''-class frigate launched in 1982 and scrapped in 2001.
Battle honours
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Louisburg 1758
*''Athalante'' 1804
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Heligoland
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1914
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Atlantic
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See also
*HMS ''Beavers Prize'' (or ''Beaver Prize''), was the 24-gun Pennsylvania State privateer ''Oliver Cromwell'', which captured 12 June 1777. She was commissioned into the Royal Navy shortly thereafter. She was wrecked in 1780, with the loss of many of her crew, in the harbour at St Lucia in a storm.
*Other ships named
''Beaver''
Citations
References
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Royal Navy ship names