Seven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS ''Kite'', after the kite, a bird of prey: * was a 6-gun

cutter Cutter may refer to: 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 ...

launched in 1764 and sold in 1771. * was a 12-gun cutter purchased in 1778, rated as a

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 ...

between 1779 and 1783, and sold in 1793. * was a 16-gun brig-sloop launched in 1795 and sold in 1805. * was a 16-gun brig-sloop launched in 1805 and sold in 1815. * was a wooden paddle vessel, previously the

GPO GPO may refer to: Government and politics * General Post Office, Dublin * General Post Office, in Britain * Social Security Government Pension Offset, a provision reducing benefits * Government Pharmaceutical Organization, a Thai state enterpris ...

ship ''Aetna''. She was launched in 1826, transferred to the navy in 1837 and sold in 1864. * was an iron screw gunboat launched in 1871 and sold in 1920, becoming a dredger. * was a Modified launched in 1942 and sunk by a German U-boat in 1944.

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