Ten ships of the
Royal Navy have borne the name HMS ''Renard'', or HMS ''Reynard'', after the
French
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Reynard:
* was an 18-gun
sloop
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that captured from the French in July 1781. She became a hospital ship in Antigua in 1781–82, and was broken up in 1784.
[Demerliac (1996), p.194, #1941.]
* was an 18-gun sloop, previously a French
privateer. The British captured her in 1797 and sold her in 1809.
* was a French naval 12-gun
schooner
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that captured in 1803; The Admiralty later renamed her HMS ''Crafty''. The Spanish captured ''Crafty'' in 1807.
* was a 10-gun launched in 1808 and sold for breaking up in 1818.
* was a 10-gun ''Cherokee''-class brig-sloop launched in 1821. She was renamed HMS ''Renard'' in 1828, reclassified as a mooring vessel in 1841, and was broken up in 1857.
* was a unique wooden
screw sloop launched in 1848 and wrecked in 1851.
* was a launched in 1856 and broken up in 1866.
* was a ''Beagle''-class schooner launched in Sydney in 1873 and sold in 1883.
* was an launched in 1892 and sold in 1905.
* was a launched in 1909 and sold in 1920.
Footnotes
Notes
Citations
References
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*Demerliac, Alain (1996) ''La Marine De Louis XVI: Nomenclature Des Navires Français De 1774 À 1792''. (Nice: Éditions OMEGA).
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