Many 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 been named HMS ''Garland''. The name dates back to 1242, being the oldest confirmed ship name in the Royal Navy.
* (or ''Guardland''), a 38/48-gun
galleon
Galleons were large, multi-decked sailing ships first used as armed cargo carriers by European states from the 16th to 18th centuries during the age of sail and were the principal vessels drafted for use as warships until the Anglo-Dutch War ...
, built in 1590 and sunk in 1618.
* , containing possessions of Charles I of England,
wrecked on Godrevy Island in Cornwall on the day Charles was executed 30 January 1649.
* , a middling ship launched in 1620, and captured by the Dutch in 1652.
* , a 30-gun ship launched in 1654 and originally called HMS ''Grantham'', renamed ''Garland'' in 1660, became a fireship in 1688, upgraded to a fifth rate frigate in 1689 and finally sold in 1698.
* , a 44-gun fifth-rate frigate launched in 1703, and wrecked in 1709.
* , a 32-gun fifth-rate frigate, originally named HMS ''Scarborough'', launched in 1696. Captured by the French in 1710 off the coast of Guinea, recaptured in 1712 and renamed ''Garland'' and used as a fireship; sold in 1744.
* , a 24-gun
sixth-rate
In the rating system of the Royal Navy used to categorise sailing warships, a sixth-rate was the designation for small warships mounting between 20 and 28 carriage-mounted guns on a single deck, sometimes with smaller guns on the upper works and ...
post ship
Post ship was a designation used in the Royal Navy during the second half of the 18th century and the Napoleonic Wars to describe a ship of the sixth rate (see rating system of the Royal Navy) that was smaller than a frigate (in practice, carry ...
launched in 1748 and sold in 1783. She then became the
slave ship
Slave ships were large cargo ships specially built or converted from the 17th to the 19th century for transporting slaves. Such ships were also known as "Guineamen" because the trade involved human trafficking to and from the Guinea coast ...
''Garland''. She made six full slave trading voyages starting in 1784, and was wrecked off Barbados in 1792 after having delivered a seventh cargo of slaves.
* , originally a French 20-gun frigate called ''Guirlande'', captured in 1762. She was possibly hulked in 1768, having never been commissioned.
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HMS ''Garland'', a 28-gun sixth-rate frigate launched in 1779 as ''Sibyl'', renamed ''Garland'' in 1795, and wrecked in 1798 off Madagascar.
* , a 6-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 1798 and sold in March 1803.
* , originally a French 22-gun privateer called ''Mars'' that HMS ''Amethyst'' captured in 1800 and that was wrecked in 1803 in the West Indies.
* , a 22-gun ''Laurel''-class sixth-rate post ship launched in 1807 and sold in 1817.
* , a wooden paddle packet launched in 1847, and sold in 1855.
* , a ''Cheerful''-class screw gunboat launched in 1856, and broken up in 1864.
* , an launched in 1913 that fought at the Battle of Jutland. Sold in 1921.
* , a G-class destroyer launched in 1935. Served with the Polish Navy from 1940 to 1946. Sold to the Dutch navy in 1947 and broken up in 1964.
References
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Royal Navy ship names