Four 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 ...
have borne the name HMS ''Pilot'', or HMS ''Pilote'':
* was a 14-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 ...
, formerly the French ''Mutin''-class cutter ''Pilote''. ''Pilote'' was launched November 1778 at Dunkirk; the Admiralty sold her in May 1799.
* was an 18-gun launched in 1807 and sold in 1828. She became a
whaler
A whaler or whaling ship is a specialized vessel, designed or adapted for whaling: the catching or processing of whales.
Terminology
The term ''whaler'' is mostly historic. A handful of nations continue with industrial whaling, and one, Japa ...
, making five whale fishing voyages between 1830 and 1842; she was last listed in 1844.
* was a 16-gun brig-sloop launched in 1838 and sold in 1862.
* was an 8-gun
training brig launched in 1879 and sold in 1907.
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Royal Navy ship names