Six ships of the
Royal Navy
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have been named HMS ''Redwing'', after the
redwing. Another was renamed before being launched, and another was cancelled.
* was a , built in
Brightlingsea
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in 1806, and lost at sea in 1827.
* HMS ''Redwing'' was to have been an 18-gun sloop. She was ordered in 1829 and cancelled in 1832.
* was a wooden paddle packet, originally the
GPO's ''Richmond''. She was transferred to the Navy in 1837 and sold in 1849.
* was a , built at
Northfleet
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in 1855, and broken up in 1878.
* was a composite screw gunboat built as HMS ''Espion'' but renamed in 1879 and launched in 1880. She was sold in 1905.
* was a tender, previously the War Department's ''Sir Charles Pasley''. She was transferred to the Navy in 1905 and was sold in 1931.
* HMS ''Redwing'' was to have been an . She was renamed HMS ''Medora'' in 1915, and finally in 1916, and launched that year.
* was a tender launched in 1933, sold in 1957 and broken up in 1965.
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Royal Navy ship names