Seven ships of the

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have borne the name HMS ''Pique'': * was formerly the French ship ''Pique'', a 38-gun

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captured by in 1795. HMS ''Pique'' was wrecked in action with the French ship in 1798. * HMS ''Pique'' was formerly the French ship ''Pallas'', a 36-gun fifth rate, captured in 1800 by a squadron off the coast of France. She was initially named HMS ''Aeolus'' but renamed to ''Pique'' in 1801. Because ''Pique'' served in the navy's Egyptian campaign (2 March to 8 September 1801), her officers and crew qualified for the clasp "Egypt" to the Naval General Service Medal, which the

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issued in 1847 to all surviving claimants. She was sold for breaking up in 1819. * HMS ''Pique'' was a 46-gun fifth rate ordered in 1825, but cancelled in 1832. * was a 36-gun fifth rate launched in 1834, and sent to the eastern Mediterranean in 1840 as part of a squadron under . She was converted to a receiving ship in 1872, lent as a hospital hulk in 1882 and sold in 1910. * was an second-class

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, launched in 1890 and sold to the breakers in 1911. * HMS ''Pique'' was a ordered in April 1942, but cancelled in November, and reordered as . * was a , previously planned to be named HMS ''Celerity'', but renamed in 1942. She was transferred to the Royal Navy under the terms of

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in 1942 and returned to the

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in 1946. She was transferred to

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in March 1947 and renamed ''Ereğli''. She was stricken in 1973.

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