Five ships of the
Royal Navy
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have borne the name HMS ''Tyrian'':
* was a 10-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 1808 and sold in 1819.
* was a 10-gun ''Cherokee''-class brig-sloop launched in 1826 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
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* 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 fo ...
, 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 used as a
quarantine hulk from 1847, a
coastguard
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depot ship
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from 1866, and was sold in 1892.
* was a 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-ste ...
launched in 1861, used as a
tug from 1883 and was sold in 1891.
* was an launched in 1919 and scrapped in 1930.
* was a
T-class destroyer launched in 1942. She was converted to a
Type 16 frigate between 1951 and 1952, and was scrapped in 1965.
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Royal Navy ship names