Four ships and two shore establishments 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 ...

have been named HMS ''Buzzard'' after the bird, the

buzzard Buzzard is the common name of several species of birds of prey. ''Buteo'' species * Archer's buzzard (''Buteo archeri'') * Augur buzzard (''Buteo augur'') * Broad-winged hawk (''Buteo platypterus'') * Common buzzard (''Buteo buteo'') * Eastern ...

Ships

* HMS ''Buzzard'' 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 ...

, originally the French ship ''Lutine''. She was captured in the Leeward Islands in 1806 and commissioned as . She was renamed HMS ''Buzzard'' in 1813 and was sold in 1814. * was a 10-gun brigantine, originally ordered as a . She was launched in 1834 and sold in 1843.https://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/12117.html National Maritime Museum, London * was a wooden paddle sloop launched in 1849 and broken up in 1883. * was a composite screw sloop launched in 1887, renamed HMS ''President'' in 1911 and sold in 1921.

Shore establishments

* was a

Royal Naval Air Station The Fleet Air Arm (FAA) is one of the five fighting arms of the Royal Navy and is responsible for the delivery of naval air power both from land and at sea. The Fleet Air Arm operates the F-35 Lightning II for maritime strike, the AW159 Wi ...

at Lympne,

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commissioned in 1939 and paid off later that year. It was recommissioned in 1940, renamed HMS ''Daedalus II'' later that year, and was then handed over to the

Royal Air Force The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the United Kingdom's air and space force. It was formed towards the end of the First World War on 1 April 1918, becoming the first independent air force in the world, by regrouping the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) an ...

. * was a Royal Naval Air Station at Kingston, Jamaica, in service between 1940 and 1945.

References

* *Warlow, Ben, ''Shore Establishments of the Royal Navy'', Liskeard : Maritime, 2000. {{DEFAULTSORT:Buzzard, Hms Royal Navy ship names