Nine ships of the
Royal Navy have borne the name HMS ''Speedy'':
* was a 14 gun
sloop-of-war
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, launched in 1782. She was captured by the French in 1794, retaken by in 1795 and commanded by
Thomas Cochrane in 1801. The French captured her again in 1801, whilst she was in the
Mediterranean Sea, and donated her to the
Papal Navy
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, She was struck in 1806.
* was a
gunboat serving on the Canadian
Great Lakes. She was launched in 1798 and foundered in 1804.
* was a
brig-sloop, formerly ''George Herbert'', purchased in 1803 and sold in 1818 for use as a floating chapel. The chapel was used until 1834 then she was broken up.
* was a six-gun
cutter
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launched in 1828, converted to a dockyard mooring
lighter in 1853 and renamed ''YC.11'' and broken up in 1866.
* was a wood screw gunboat of the , launched in 1860 and broken up in 1889.
* was a torpedo gunboat launched in 1893 and sunk by a mine in the
Humber estuary
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in 1914.
* was an launched in 1918 and sunk on 24 September 1922 in a collision with a tug in the
Sea of Marmara.
[Gray, Randal, ed., ''Conway′s All the World′s Fighting Ships, 1906-1921'', Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1985, , p. 84.]
* was a launched in 1938. She was sold in 1946 and renamed ''Speedon'', and was broken up at
Aden
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in 1957.
* was a
jetfoil
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launched in 1979 and sold into mercantile service in 1986.
See also
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*
Speedy (disambiguation)
References
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Royal Navy ship names