Thirteen ships of the

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have borne the name HMS ''Bonetta'': * was a 4-gun

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launched in 1673 and sold in 1687. * was a 4-gun sloop launched in 1699 and sold in 1712. * was a sloop in service in 1718 and sold in 1719. * was a 3-gun sloop launched in 1721 and sold in 1731. * was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1732. She foundered in 1744. * was a 10-gun sloop launched in 1756 and sold in 1776. ''

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'' (1778) shows the ''Hawke'', of 220 tons (bm), Thames-built, as the former sloop-of-war ''Bonetta''. It gives ''Hawke''s master as S. Gribble, her owner as Calvert & Co., her armament as two 12-pounder and twelve 9-pounder guns, and her trade as privateer. * was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1779. She was at Yorktown, but rather than scuttling her, the British handed her over to French on 19 October 1781 under the terms of capitulation. The French sent her as a cartel to New York, after which she returned to their control. On 3 January 1782 recaptured her. ''Bonetta'' was broken up in 1797.Demerliac (1996), p.75, #475. * was an 18-gun sloop, formerly the civilian ''Roebuck''. She was purchased in 1781, renamed HMS ''Swan'' in 1782 and capsized later that year. * was the French privateer ''Huit Amis'', launched at Bordeaux in 1798 that the British

captured in May. In her brief naval career she captured a number of small prizes, one of them a 2-gun privateer. ''Bonetta'' was wrecked in 1801. * was the mercantile ''Adamant'', launched at Bridlington in 1798 that the Navy purchased in 1803, converted to a 20-gun sloop, and sold in 1810. She then returned to mercantile service under her previous name of ''Adamant''. In 1816 she brought the first free settlers to Hobart,

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. She then left to engage in whaling and was last reported to be at Timor in 1818. * was a 3-gun

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launched in 1836 and broken up by 1861. * was an iron screw gunboat launched in 1871 and sold as the civilian salvage vessel ''Disperser'' in 1909. * was a

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launched in 1907 on speculation and accepted by the navy in 1909. She was reclassified as a destroyer in 1913 and was sold in 1920.

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* * Demerliac, Alain (1996) ''La Marine De Louis XVI: Nomenclature Des Navires Français De 1774 À 1792''. (Nice: Éditions OMEGA). {{DEFAULTSORT:Bonetta, Hms Royal Navy ship names

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