Twelve ships of the

Royal Navy The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against F ...

have borne the name HMS ''Martin'' * was a ship captured in 1651 and sold in 1653. * was a ship launched in 1652 and sold in 1667. * was a 10-gun

ketch A ketch is a two- masted sailboat whose mainmast is taller than the mizzen mast (or aft-mast), and whose mizzen mast is stepped forward of the rudder post. The mizzen mast stepped forward of the rudder post is what distinguishes the ketch fr ...

launched in 1694 and captured by the French in 1702. * was 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 1761 and sold in 1784. * was a 16-gun sloop launched in 1790. She foundered in 1800. * was an 18-gun sloop launched in 1805. She foundered in 1806. * was an 18-gun sloop launched in 1809 and wrecked in 1817. * was an 18-gun sloop launched in 1821. She foundered in 1826. * was a 16-gun

brig A brig is a type of sailing vessel defined by its rig: two masts which are both square rig, square-rigged. Brigs originated in the second half of the 18th century and were a common type of smaller merchant vessel or warship from then until the ...

launched in 1850. She was used as a training brig from 1880 and was renamed HMS ''Kingfisher''. She was sold in 1907.

* was a training brig, built as HMS ''Mayflower'', but renamed in 1888 before being launched in 1890. She was used as coal hulk from 1907, being renamed ''C23''. * was an launched in 1910 and sold in 1920. * was an M-class destroyer launched in 1940 and sunk in 1942.

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