Five ships and a training establishment 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 ''Eaglet'': * was an 8-gun ketch built in 1655 and sold in 1674. * was a 10-gun ketch launched in 1691 and captured in 1693 by the French off the

Isle of Arran The Isle of Arran (; sco, Isle o Arran; gd, Eilean Arainn) or simply Arran is an island off the west coast of Scotland. It is the largest island in the Firth of Clyde and the seventh-largest Scottish island, at . Historically part of Butesh ...

. * was a paddle vessel, hired between 1855 and 1857. * was launched in 1804 as ''Eagle'' and renamed whilst a

training ship A training ship is a ship used to train students as sailors. The term is mostly used to describe ships employed by navies to train future officers. Essentially there are two types: those used for training at sea and old hulks used to house classr ...

in 1918. She was destroyed by fire in 1926 and the wreck was sold in 1927. * was a

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 as ''Sir Bevis'' in 1918, renamed ''Irwell'' in 1923 and ''Eaglet'' in 1926. She was broken up in 1971. * was founded in 1904 and moved onshore after the scrapping of the last named ship in 1971.

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