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 ''Forester'':
* was a 22-gun ship launched in 1657 and blown up in 1672.
* was a 7-gun
hoy
Hoy ( sco, Hoy; from Norse , meaning "high island") is an island in Orkney, Scotland, measuring – the second largest in the archipelago, after Mainland. A natural causeway, ''the Ayre'', links the island to the smaller South Walls; the tw ...
launched in 1693 and wrecked in 1752.
* was a 4-gun hoy launched in 1748 and transferred to the coastguard as a hulk in 1828.
* was a 3-gun gunvessel, formerly a Thames sailing barge, purchased in 1794 and sold on 29 December 1801 for £210.
[Great Britain: Commissioners of Naval enquiry (1803) ''The First (second-twelfth) Report of the Commissioners of Naval Enquiry, Appointed by Act 43 Geo. III. (Observations, by Way of Supplement, to the First Report of the Commissioners of Naval Enquiry, on the Memorial of the Principal Officers and Commissioners of His Majesty's Navy, in Answer to that Report.)'', p.116.]
* was an 18-gun launched in 1806. She was used for harbour service from 1816 and was sold in 1819.
*HMS ''Forester'' was to have been a 10-gun
brig
A brig is a type of sailing vessel defined by its rig: two masts which are both square rig, square-rigged. Brigs originated in the second half of the 18th century and were a common type of smaller merchant vessel or warship from then until the ...
. She was ordered in 1824, but the order was either cancelled in 1830, or otherwise transferred to become the next HMS ''Forester''.
* was a 10-gun launched in 1832, wrecked in 1833 and sold in 1843.
* was an wooden 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 1856. She was renamed ''YC7'' as a yard craft in 1868, and was lost in a typhoon in 1871.
* was a composite screw gunboat launched in 1877. She became a coal hulk in 1894 and was sold in 1904.
* was an launched in 1911 and sold in 1921.
* was an
F-class destroyer launched in 1934. She was sold for scrapping in 1946.
Citations
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Royal Navy ship names