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 ''Halifax'', after the English town of

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and the city of

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. * HMS ''Halifax'' (1756) was a 22-gun

sloop A sloop is a sailboat with a single mast typically having only one headsail in front of the mast and one mainsail aft of (behind) the mast. Such an arrangement is called a fore-and-aft rig, and can be rigged as a Bermuda rig with triangular sa ...

launched in 1756 and captured by the French in the same year at Oswego * was a 6-gun

schooner A schooner () is a type of sailing vessel defined by its rig: fore-and-aft rigged on all of two or more masts and, in the case of a two-masted schooner, the foremast generally being shorter than the mainmast. A common variant, the topsail schoon ...

built 1765, purchased in 1768 and wrecked in 1775 * HMS Halifax (1775) was a schooner purchased in 1775 and sold 1780. She may have been the previous ''Halifax'', salvaged and returned to service. * was an 18-gun sloop, originally , built 1777, renamed after the capture of ''Ranger'' on 11 May 1780; sold in 1781 * HMS ''Halifax'' (1782) was a 10-gun schooner purchased in 1782 and sold in 1784 * was a 12-gun brig, the former French privateer ''Marie'' that the Royal Navy captured in 1797, commissioned in 1801, and sold that same year. She became the mercantile ''Halifax''. * was an 18-gun sloop launched in 1806 at

and broken up in 1814

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Halifax Royal Navy ship names

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