Eleven 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 ''Plover'', after the species of bird, the
Plover
Plovers ( , ) are a widely distributed group of wading birds belonging to the subfamily Charadriinae.
Description
There are about 66 species in the subfamily, most of them called "plover" or "dotterel". The closely related lapwing subfa ...
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* was a 26-gun ship, previously the Dutch ''Morgen Star''. She was captured in 1652 and either sunk in action in 1653 or sold in 1657.
* was an 18-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 1796 and sold in 1819.
* was a 10-gun launched in 1821
that became a
Post Office Packet Service
The Post Office Packet Service dates to Tudor times and ran until 1823, when the Admiralty assumed control of the service. Originally, the Post Office used packet ships to carry mail packets to and from British embassies, colonies and outposts. Th ...
packet
Packet may refer to:
* A small container or pouch
** Packet (container), a small single use container
** Cigarette packet
** Sugar packet
* Network packet, a formatted unit of data carried by a packet-mode computer network
* Packet radio, a form ...
, sailing out of
Falmouth, Cornwall
Falmouth ( ; kw, Aberfala) is a town, civil parish and port on the River Fal on the south coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It has a total resident population of 21,797 (2011 census).
Etymology
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. She was sold in 1841.
* was a survey
cutter, previously the civilian ''Bentinck''. She was purchased in 1842 and sold in 1854. See
William Pullen
Vice-Admiral William John Samuel Pullen (4 December 1813 – 22 January 1887) was a Royal Navy officer who was the first European to sail along the north coast of Alaska from the Bering Strait to the Mackenzie River in Canada. His 1849 journ ...
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* was an wooden screw
gunboat
A gunboat is a naval watercraft designed for the express purpose of carrying one or more guns to bombard coastal targets, as opposed to those military craft designed for naval warfare, or for ferrying troops or supplies.
History Pre-steam ...
launched in 1855 and sunk in 1859.
* was a gunvessel launched in 1860 and sold into civilian service in 1865, being renamed ''Hawk''.
* was a wooden screw gunvessel launched in 1867 and sold for breaking up in 1885.
* was a composite screw gunboat launched in 1888. She was used as a boom defence vessel from 1904 and was sold in 1927.
* was an launched in 1916 and sold in 1921.
* was a
minelayer
A minelayer is any warship, submarine or military aircraft deploying explosive mines. Since World War I the term "minelayer" refers specifically to a naval ship used for deploying naval mines. "Mine planting" was the term for installing controll ...
launched in 1937 and sold in 1969.
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HMS ''Plover'' (P239) was a
patrol vessel
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launched in 1983. She was sold to the
Philippine Navy
The Philippine Navy (PN) ( tgl, Hukbong Dagat ng Pilipinas, , Sea Army of the Philippines) ( es, Armada de Filipinas, , Ejército del Mar de las Filipinas) is the naval warfare service branch of the Armed Forces of the Philippines. It has an e ...
in 1997 and re-designated the .
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Royal Navy ship names