Ten ships and one shore establishment of the British
Royal Navy have been named HMS ''Hornet'', after the
insect:
* , a 14-gun
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 ...
launched in 1745. She was in French hands between 1746 and 1747, and was sold in 1770.
* , a 16-gun
cutter
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Tools
* Bolt cutter
* Box cutter, aka Stanley knife, a form of utility knife
* Cigar cutter
* Cookie cutter
* Glass cutter
* Meat cutter
* Milling cutter
* Paper cutter
* Side cutter
* Cutter, a type of hydraulic rescue to ...
purchased in 1763 and sold in 1772.
* , a 14-gun sloop launched in 1776 and sold in 1791.
* , a 16-gun sloop launched in 1794, hospital ship from 1805 to 1811, and sold in 1817.
* , a 4-gun Dutch
hoy
Hoy ( sco, Hoy; from Norse , meaning "high island") is an island in Orkney, Scotland, measuring – the second largest in the archipelago, after Mainland. A natural causeway, ''the Ayre'', links the island to the smaller South Walls; the two ...
purchased as a
gunvessel in 1794 and broken up in 1795.
* , 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 ...
launched in 1831 and completed as a
brigantine
A brigantine is a two-masted sailing vessel with a fully square-rigged foremast and at least two sails on the main mast: a square topsail and a gaff sail mainsail (behind the mast). The main mast is the second and taller of the two masts.
Older ...
. She was broken up in 1845.
* , a wooden screw sloop, initially ordered as a schooner, launched in 1854 and broken up in 1868.
* , a composite screw gunvessel launched in 1868 and sold in 1899.
* , a launched in 1893 and broken up in 1909.
* , an launched in 1911 and broken up in 1921.
* , a
stone frigate, a
Coastal Forces Base at
Gosport
Gosport ( ) is a town and non-metropolitan borough on the south coast of Hampshire, South East England. At the 2011 Census, its population was 82,662. Gosport is situated on a peninsula on the western side of Portsmouth Harbour, opposite t ...
formed around 1941 and disbanded in 1956.
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Royal Navy ship names