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 borne the name HMS ''Contest'':
* or ''Gunboat No. 16'' was a 14-gun vessel launched in 1797 and broken up in 1799.
* was a 5-gun
gun-brig
A gun-brig was a small brig-rigged warship that enjoyed popularity in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, during which large numbers were purchased or built. In general these were vessels of under 200 tons burthen, and thus smaller than ...
, previously the Dutch ''Hell-hound''. She was captured in 1799 and broken up in 1803.
* was a 14-gun
schooner
A schooner () is a type of sailing vessel defined by its rig: fore-and-aft rigged on all of two or more masts and, in the case of a two-masted schooner, the foremast generally being shorter than the mainmast. A common variant, the topsail schoon ...
purchased in 1799 and broken up later that year.
* was a 12-gun gun-brig launched in 1804; she foundered in 1809.
* was a 12-gun gun-brig launched in 1812 and wrecked in 1828.
* was a 12-gun brig launched in 1846 and broken up in 1868.
* was a composite screw
gunboat
A gunboat is a naval watercraft designed for the express purpose of carrying one or more guns to bombard coastal targets, as opposed to those military craft designed for naval warfare, or for ferrying troops or supplies.
History Pre-steam ...
launched in 1874 and scrapped in 1889.
* was a launched in 1894 and sold in 1911.
* was an destroyer launched in 1913 and sunk by
SM U-106 in 1917.
* was a destroyer launched in 1944 and sold in 1960.
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Royal Navy ship names