Two ships of the
Royal Navy have borne the name HMS ''Little Belt''. The name was a translation from the original name of the first ship, a captured
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prize. The Danish name is that of the strait that separates
Funen from the Danish mainland and that links the
Kattegat to the Baltic Sea.
* was a 20-gun
sixth rate, formerly the Danish ship ''Lillebælt''. She was captured at the
Battle of Copenhagen in 1807. She was involved in a battle with the American in 1811, and was sold later that year.
* was a 3-gun
sloop
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, formerly the mercantile sloop ''
Friends Good Will'', which the British captured in July 1812 and the Americans captured in 1813, but which grounded in October 1813 and was burnt by a British expeditionary force in December.
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Royal Navy ship names