HMS ''Tweed'' may refer to any one of several
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 ...
ships named for the
River Tweed
The River Tweed, or Tweed Water ( gd, Abhainn Thuaidh, sco, Watter o Tweid, cy, Tuedd), is a river long that flows east across the Border region in Scotland and northern England. Tweed cloth derives its name from its association with the ...
, including:
*
*HMS ''Tweed'' was an ordered and laid down in 1795, but was renamed on 30 October 1795 before her launch in 1796.
*, a
ship-sloop wrecked in 1813.
*, a 28-gun
sixth-rate frigate built in 1823 at Portsmouth and sold in 1852.
*, a
torpedo gunboat
In late 19th-century naval terminology, torpedo gunboats were a form of gunboat armed with torpedoes and designed for hunting and destroying smaller torpedo boats. By the end of the 1890s torpedo gunboats were superseded by their more successful c ...
.
*, of 1,460 tons displacement launched about 1943 and sunk on 7 January 1944 during the Second World War.
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Royal Navy ship names