Several ships of the
Royal Navy have borne the name HMS ''Growler''
* , a launched in 1797 and captured by French privateers on 21 December 1797. The French Navy took her into service under her existing name. The Royal Navy recovered her in a decayed state in 1809.
* ''Growler'' was a tender to in September 1803.
* , a gun-brig launched in 1804 and sold in 1815
* HMS ''Growler'' was the , a
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 ...
of five guns that served in the
War of 1812, changing hands three times, finally becoming HMS ''Hamilton''.
* , a
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 ...
, broken up January 1854 at Portsmouth.
* , an screw
gunboat. broken up 14 December 1864 at Malta.
* , a , launched in 1868 and sold for scrap in 1887.
* , a rescue tug.
Later RFA ''Growler''
Citations
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Royal Navy ship names