Eighteen ships of the

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have borne the name HMS ''Hind'' or HMS Hynd: * was a 28-gun vessel built in 1545 and sold in 1555. * was an 18-gun ship purchased in 1643 and listed until 1651. She was in

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hands between 1648 and 1649. * was an 8-gun ketch launched in 1655 and wrecked in 1668. * was a 6-gun dogger captured from the Dutch in 1672 and recaptured by them in 1674. * was a 10-gun ketch launched in 1691 captured by the French in 1697. * was a 12-gun sixth rate purchased in 1709 and lost to a stranding later that year. * was a 16-gun sixth rate captured in 1709. She bilged on her anchor in 1711 and sank. * was a 20-gun sixth rate launched in 1711 and wrecked in 1721. The ship struck a rock "half a musket shot" off Guernsey castle on 7 December 1721, and 21 hands were lost including the

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Fuzzard. The loss was attributed to the "ignorance of the

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". 94 of the ship's company were saved. Amongst those rescued was the

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, Mr Forkington, "who was laid up with the

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, but made shift to swim to a rock not far distant, and the cold baths that endangered his life, hath effectively cured his said distemper." The pilot was tried and found guilty, and was sentenced to three years imprisonment and loss of pay. * was a

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launched in 1741 and sold in 1743. * was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1744. She foundered in 1747. * was a 24-gun sixth rate launched in 1749. She became a storeship in 1783 and was sold in 1784. * was a 28-gun sixth rate launched in 1785 and broken up in 1811. * was a 10-gun tender, launched in 1790 as a

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cutter. As a naval cutter she captured several privateers, participated in the

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, and was sold in 1844. * was a 20-gun sixth rate, built as HMS ''Barbadoes'', but renamed before being launched in 1814. She was sold in 1829. * was a wooden screw gunboat launched in 1855 and broken up in 1872. * was a coastguard

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launched in 1880 and wrecked in 1900. * was an launched in 1911, sold in 1921 and broken up in 1924. * was a Modified ''Black Swan''-class sloop launched in 1943 and broken up in 1958.

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