A number of ships of the
Royal Navy have been named HMS ''Buffalo'':
*
HMS ''Buffalo'' was a
storeship
Combat stores ships, or storeships, were originally a designation given to ships in the Age of Sail and immediately afterward that navies used to stow supplies and other goods for naval purposes. Today, the United States Navy and the Royal Nav ...
, launched in 1743 as the 70-gun
third-rate . She was reduced to 64-guns in 1760, and renamed ''Buffalo'' and used as a storeship from 1777 until broken up in 1783.
* was 12-gun storeship built as the merchant vessel ''Fremantle'', but purchased and launched in 1797. She was hulked in 1814 and sold in 1817.
* was a 16-gun storeship previously the
East Indiaman
East Indiaman was a general name for any sailing ship operating under charter or licence to any of the East India trading companies of the major European trading powers of the 17th through the 19th centuries. The term is used to refer to vesse ...
''Hindostan''. She was purchased in 1813 and wrecked in 1840 off
Mercury Bay. She was significant in the colonisation of
South Australia.
* was an iron screw storeship transferred from the Treasury Department in 1855, where she had been known as ''Baron von Humboldt''. She was renamed ''Buffalo'' in 1856, was transferred to the
Victualling Department
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in 1868 and was sold in 1888.
* was an iron screw storeship transferred from the War Department in 1891, where she had been known as ''Earl de Gray & Ripon''. She was sold in 1903.
* was a ''Trinculo''-class
mooring vessel launched in 1916 and sunk by a
mine
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...
in 1941.
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HMS ''Buffalo'' was to have been a . She was launched for the Royal Navy in 1943, but retained by the
US Navy as .
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Royal Navy ship names