Six ships of the
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 F ...
have borne the name HMS ''Conflict'':
* was a 12-gun
gun-brig
A gun-brig was a small brig-rigged warship that enjoyed popularity in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, during which large numbers were purchased or built. In general these were vessels of under 200 tons burthen, and thus smaller than ...
launched in 1801 that grounded in 1804, enabling the French to capture her; the French Navy commissioned her in October 1806, renamed her ''Lynx'' in September 1814, reverted to ''Conflict'' in March 1815, and ''Lynx'' again in July 1815. As ''Lynx'' she was present at naval actions at Cadiz (1823), where she came under fire, Algiers (1830), and possibly the river Tagus (1831). She was struck from the Navy at Rochefort in October 1834 and broken up in November.
* was a 12-gun gun-brig launched in 1805. She captured a number of vessels, including privateers, and participated in several major actions. She disappeared in November 1810 with the loss of all her crew.
* was a 12-gun gun-brig launched in 1812. She was
hulked in 1832 and sold in 1840.
* was a wooden screw
sloop launched in 1846, rebuilt in 1848 and sold in 1863.
* was a
schooner launched in 1873 and sold in 1882.
* was a launched in 1894 and sold in 1920.
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Royal Navy ship names