Eight 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 ''Savage'':
* was a 14-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 ...
purchased in 1748 and wrecked later that year.
* was an 8-gun sloop launched in 1750 and wrecked in 1776.
* was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1778, captured and recaptured in September 1781, hulked in 1804, and sold in 1815.
* was a 16-gun
brig-sloop launched in 1805 and sold in 1819.
* was a 10-gun launched in 1830. She became a dockyard chain
lighter in 1853 and was broken up in 1866.
* was an screw
gunboat launched in 1856, used as a mooring lighter and renamed ''YC 3'' from 1864, and was broken up in 1888.
* was a launched in 1910 and sold in 1921.
* was an
S-class destroyer launched in 1942 and broken up in 1962.
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Royal Navy ship names