HMS Ferret
HMS Ferret
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Fifteen ships and two shore establishments of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Ferret, after the domestic mammal, the Ferret:
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- was a 10-gun sloop launched in 1704 and captured by the French in 1706.
- was a 10-gun sloop launched in 1711 and captured by the Spanish in 1718.
- was a 6-gun sloop launched in 1721 and sold in 1731.
- was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1743. She foundered in a hurricane in 1757.
- was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1760. She foundered in a hurricane in 1776.
- was a 6-gun cutter launched in 1763 and sold in 1781.
- was a 12-gun brig-sloop launched in 1784 and sold in 1801.
- was a 4-gun gunboat. She was an ex-hoy purchased in 1794 and sold in 1802.
- was a 6-gun schooner purchased in 1799 and captured that year by the Spanish.
- was an 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop launched in 1806 and wrecked in 1813.
- HMS Ferret was a 14-gun gun-brig, previously the American privateer Rapid. She was captured in 1812 by HMS Maidstone and became HMS Nova Scotia. She was renamed HMS Ferret in 1813 and was sold in 1820.
- was a 10-gun Cherokee-class brig-sloop launched in 1821 and sold in 1837.
- was an 8-gun brig launched in 1840 and wrecked in 1869.
- was a Ferret-class destroyer, later merged into the A class. She was launched in 1893, was dismantled in 1910 and sunk as a target in 1911.
- was an Acheron-class destroyer launched in 1911 and sold in 1921.
- was the Royal Navy's shore base and at Londonderry between 1940 and 1947.
- is a Royal Naval Reserve training centre...... ...
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