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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 ...

have borne the name HMS ''Siren'', ''Syren'' or ''Sirene'',Until the beginning of the nineteenth century (and even later) the spellings were interchangeable. Different spellings for the same ships are used in sources, sometimes within the same document. after the

Siren Siren or sirens may refer to: Common meanings * Siren (alarm), a loud acoustic alarm used to alert people to emergencies * Siren (mythology), an enchanting but dangerous monster in Greek mythology Places * Siren (town), Wisconsin * Siren, Wisc ...

s of

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: * was a 24-gun

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of the 1741 Establishment launched in 1745 and sold in 1764. * was a 28-gun

sixth rate In the rating system of the Royal Navy used to categorise sailing warships, a sixth-rate was the designation for small warships mounting between 20 and 28 carriage-mounted guns on a single deck, sometimes with smaller guns on the upper works a ...

launched in 1773 and wrecked in 1777. * was a 24-gun launched in 1779 and wrecked in 1781. * was a 32-gun

fifth rate In the rating system of the Royal Navy used to categorise sailing warships, a fifth rate was the second-smallest class of warships in a hierarchical system of six " ratings" based on size and firepower. Rating The rating system in the Royal ...

launched in 1782, on harbour service from 1805 and broken up in 1822. * was previously the French , a brig-

aviso An ''aviso'' was originally a kind of dispatch boat or "advice boat", carrying orders before the development of effective remote communication. The term, derived from the Portuguese and Spanish word for "advice", "notice" or "warning", an ...

, launched in 1788 at Bayonne. and captured her in 1794. She left Jamaica in late July 1796 and was lost without a trace, probably in August 1796. *HMS ''Siren'' was to have been a 32-gun fifth rate, ordered in 1805 and cancelled in 1806. *HMS ''Siren'' was previously . She was captured in 1814 and used as a hospital hulk. She was on the Navy list until 1815. * was a 16-gun

brig-sloop In the 18th century and most of the 19th, a sloop-of-war in the Royal Navy was a warship with a single gun deck that carried up to eighteen guns. The rating system covered all vessels with 20 guns and above; thus, the term ''sloop-of-war'' enc ...

, launched in 1841 and broken up by 1868. *HMS ''Siren'' was previously , an launched in 1856. She was renamed HMS ''Siren'' in 1895, and was sold in 1896. * was a launched in 1900 and sold in 1920.

Uncommissioned vessels

*''Syren'' was an American schooner that a British squadron captured off New York in January 1813 and armed for use as a tender.''Lloyd's Marine List'

- accessed 29 November 2013. Disposal unknown. *''Siren'' was a steam tender built in 1855 for the use of royalty at Bermuda and sold in 1863. *''Syren'' was a training tender, purchased in 1878 and attached to HMS Prince of Wales (1860), HMS ''Britannia''. She was sold in 1912.

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