Eighteen ships of the
Royal Navy have borne the name ''Hunter'':
* was a
dogger captured in 1646 and sold in 1649.
* was a 10-gun
fire ship, previously the French
sloop
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''Chasseur'', captured in 1652. She was burnt in 1653.
* was a 6-gun
Royalist vessel, captured by the
Parliamentarians in 1656. She foundered in 1661.
* was a 30-gun
fifth rate captured from the Dutch in 1672. She was on the
Navy List until 1677.
* was a 4-gun sloop launched in 1673 and sold in 1683.
* was an 8-gun fire ship launched in 1690. She was rebuilt as a 24-gun
sixth rate in 1710 and was captured by the Spanish later that year.
* was a 10-gun fire ship purchased in 1739 and renamed HMS ''Vulcan'' in 1740. She was hulked in 1743.
* was a 10-gun sloop launched in 1756. She was captured in 1775 by an American
privateer, but was recaptured in 1776 by . ''Hunter'' was declared unfit for service and sold in 1780.
* was an 8-gun
cutter
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purchased in 1763 and sold in 1771.
* was a 16-gun sloop purchased, one of three ordered from builders in
Bermuda in 1796 (the others being
HMS Dasher
Five ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS ''Dasher'':
* was an 18-gun sloop launched in Bermuda in 1797. She became a convict hulk in 1832 and was broken up in 1838.
* was a wooden paddle packet launched in 1837 and sold in 1885.
* was a ...
and
HMS Driver). She was launched in 1796, and wrecked in 1797.
* was an 18-gun
brig-sloop purchased in 1801 and broken up in 1809.
* was a 10-gun
brig
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launched in 1805 and captured by the Americans in 1813.
* was a wood screw
gunboat launched in 1856. She was placed on the sale list in 1869 and was sold in 1884.
* was a launched in 1895 and sold in 1912.
* was an
H-class destroyer launched in 1936 and sunk in 1940.
* was a , launched for the
US Navy as USS ''Block Island'', loaned to the Royal Navy, at first as HMS ''Trailer'' and then from late 1942 as HMS ''Hunter''. She was returned to the US Navy in 1945.
* was a
Tank landing ship launched in 1945 as . She was renamed HMS ''Hunter'' in 1947, and transferred to the
Ministry of Transport in 1956, being renamed . She was broken up in 1962.
* was an patrol and training boat launched in 1983 and sold to Lebanon in 1991.
See also
* , a
Canadian Forces Naval Reserve
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division in
Windsor, Ontario
References
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Royal Navy ship names