Eleven ships of the

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have borne the name HMS ''Hawk'' after the

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, the

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: * was an 8-gun

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that foundered in 1731. * was a 10-gun

launched in 1741 and broken up in 1747. * was a 10-gun sloop launched in 1756. She was captured by the French in 1759, but was retaken in 1761. She was then sold in 1781. * is recorded as being a 10-gun sloop launched in 1761, though she may be the previous HMS ''Hawk'' after a rebuild. * was a 6-gun

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in service from 1775. An American squadron captured her off Rhode Island on 4 April 1776. * was a 16-gun sloop launched in 1793 and broken up in 1803. * was a

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in service in 1795 and sold in 1796. * was an 18-gun sloop, previously the French

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''Atalante''. captured her in 1803 and she foundered in 1804. * was a 16-gun

brig-sloop 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 ...

, previously the French ship ''Lutine'', which and captured in 1806. She was renamed HMS ''Buzzard'' in 1812 and was sold in 1814. * was a screw

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vessel launched in 1869. She was renamed HMS ''Amelia'' in 1888. * was a coastguard vessel. She had been launched in 1884 and had previously been in civilian service as ''Lady Aline''. She was purchased by the Navy in 1888 and briefly named HMS ''Oberon'' before being named HMS ''Hawk''. She was renamed HMS ''Undine'' in 1904 and was sold in 1906.

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