Twelve ships of the Royal Navy 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 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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