At least six ships of the
Royal Navy, have been named HMS ''Daphne'' after the naiad
Daphne:
* , was a that the French Navy captured in the Channel in December 1794. recaptured her in December 1797. She was sold in May 1802.
* HMS ''Daphne'' was the Dutch , launched in 1786, captured in 1796 at the
capitulation of Saldanha Bay, and brought into service as a 24-gun post ship. She was converted to a
prison ship in 1798 and renamed HMS ''Laurel''; she was sold in 1821.
* was a that served primarily in the Baltic and that the Navy sold in 1816. She then became the mercantile ''Daphne'' and made one voyage transporting convicts to New South Wales and later trading with India; she was last listed in 1823
* , an 18-gun
corvette
A corvette is a small warship. It is traditionally the smallest class of vessel considered to be a proper (or " rated") warship. The warship class above the corvette is that of the frigate, while the class below was historically that of the slo ...
* , an
steam sloop
Steam frigates (including screw frigates) and the smaller steam corvettes, steam sloops, steam gunboats and steam schooners, were steam-powered warships that were not meant to stand in the line of battle. There were some exceptions like for exam ...
* , a composite
screw sloop
A sloop is a sailboat with a single mast typically having only one headsail in front of the mast and one mainsail aft of (behind) the mast. Such an arrangement is called a fore-and-aft rig, and can be rigged as a Bermuda rig with triangular sa ...
* , an sweeping sloop
See also
* , a
lugger that served in the Royal Navy as a
hired armed vessel
During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the Royal Navy made use of a considerable number of hired armed vessels. These were generally smaller vessels, often cutters and luggers, that the Navy used for duties ranging from carrying and pa ...
from 2 November 1794 to 19 December 1796
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Royal Navy ship names