Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS ''Fawn'': * HMS ''Fawn'' (1805), a 16-gun brig-corvette, originally the French ship ''Faune'', that captured in the English Channel in 1805 and that disappears from the records in 1806. * , an 18-gun

sloop-of-war In the 18th century and most of the 19th, a sloop-of-war in the Royal Navy was a warship with a single gun deck that carried up to eighteen guns. The rating system covered all vessels with 20 guns and above; thus, the term ''sloop-of-war'' enc ...

launched in 1807, sold in 1818; she then made seven

whaling Whaling is the process of hunting of whales for their usable products such as meat and blubber, which can be turned into a type of oil that became increasingly important in the Industrial Revolution. It was practiced as an organized industry ...

voyages from 1820 until she was broken up in 1844. * , a 6-gun

brigantine A brigantine is a two-masted sailing vessel with a fully square-rigged foremast and at least two sails on the main mast: a square topsail and a gaff sail mainsail (behind the mast). The main mast is the second and taller of the two masts. Older ...

, originally the Portuguese slaver ''Caroline'', captured by on 25 March 1839 near Rio de Janeiro. She was purchased there on 27 May 1840, converted in 1842 to a tank (water) vessel at the

Cape of Good Hope Station The Commander-in-Chief, Africa was the last title of a Royal Navy's formation commander located in South Africa from 1795 to 1939. Under varying titles, it was one of the longest-lived formations of the Royal Navy. It was also often known as the C ...

, and sold in May 1847 to the Natal Colonial Government. * , a 17-gun wood screw sloop-of-war launched in 1856, used as a survey ship from 1876 and sold in 1884 * was a ''Fawn''-class

destroyer In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast, manoeuvrable, long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet, convoy or battle group and defend them against powerful short range attackers. They were originally developed in ...

launched in 1897 and sold in 1919 * was a ''Bulldog''-class survey ship launched in 1968 and sold in 1991

Battle honours

Ships named ''Fawn'' have earned the following

battle honours A battle honour is an award of a right by a government or sovereign to a military unit to emblazon the name of a battle or operation on its flags ("colours"), uniforms or other accessories where ornamentation is possible. In European military t ...

: * Gabbard, 1653 *

Martinique Martinique ( , ; gcf, label=Martinican Creole, Matinik or ; Kalinago: or ) is an island and an overseas department/region and single territorial collectivity of France. An integral part of the French Republic, Martinique is located in th ...

, 1809 *

Guadeloupe Guadeloupe (; ; gcf, label=Antillean Creole, Gwadloup, ) is an archipelago and overseas department and region of France in the Caribbean. It consists of six inhabited islands—Basse-Terre, Grande-Terre, Marie-Galante, La Désirade, and the ...

, 1810 * Belgian Coast, 1914−18

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