Seven ships of the

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have borne the name HMS ''Hawke'', after an archaic spelling of the bird, the hawk. Two of the later ships were named after

Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, KB, PC (21 February 1705 – 17 October 1781), of Scarthingwell Hall in the parish of Towton, near Tadcaster, Yorkshire, was a Royal Navy officer. As captain of the third-rate , he took part in the Battle of ...

, whilst another was planned: * was a discovery vessel launched in 1593. Her fate is unknown. * was an 8-gun

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launched in 1655 and sold in 1667. * was an 8-gun

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launched in 1690 and sunk as a foundation in 1712. * was an 8-gun sloop launched in 1721 and was presumed to have foundered in 1739 in the Atlantic after she left Charleston, South Carolina for England. * was a 4-gun former Dutch

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purchased in 1794 that sank at her moorings in Plymouth dockyard in 1796. * was laid down as a 74-gun

third-rate In the rating system of the Royal Navy, a third rate was a ship of the line which from the 1720s mounted between 64 and 80 guns, typically built with two gun decks (thus the related term two-decker). Years of experience proved that the third r ...

ship of the line, but was altered to carry 60 guns before being launched in 1820. She was refitted with screw propulsion in 1855 and was broken up in 1865. * was an

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launched in 1891. She was involved in a collision with the liner in 1911. A

U-boat U-boats were naval submarines operated by Germany, particularly in the First and Second World Wars. Although at times they were efficient fleet weapons against enemy naval warships, they were most effectively used in an economic warfare ro ...

sank ''Hawke'' in 1914. * HMS ''Hawke'' was to have been a Started in 1943, her hull, machinery, boilers and three triple Mk 24 DP 6-inch gun mounts were largely complete when cancelled in 1945 and was broken up on the slipway.D.K.Brown. Rebuilding the RN- Warship design since 1945. Seaforth(2012) UK * HMS ''Hawke'' was a shore establishment at

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, Hampshire, between 1946 and 1955.

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