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Several vessels of the Royal Navy have been named HMS ''Monkey''. * was a gun-brig of 12 guns, built 1801 in Rochester and wrecked 25 December 1810 near Brittany. * was a
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 ...
assigned to the West Indies squadron, launched 1826 and wrecked in 1831 near Tampico. * was the merchant schooner ''Courier'', built 1827, and purchased in October 1831 at Bermuda and renamed ''Monkey''. She remained in service as a tender to until sold out in August 1833. * was a steam-powered paddle packet acquired from the Post Office in 1837 and converted to a tug in 1845. She was sold in 1887 * was a dockyard water tank vessel launched 21 December 1896 and assigned to Malta until sunk by German aircraft on 26 April 1942.


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