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 launched in 1807, sold in 1818; she then made seven
whaling
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It was practiced as an organized industr ...
voyages from 1820 until she was broken up in 1844.
* , a 6-gun
brigantine, 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
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, 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 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
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In European military t ...
:
*
Gabbard, 1653
*
Martinique
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, 1809
*
Guadeloupe, 1810
* Belgian Coast, 1914−18
Note
References
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Royal Navy ship names