HMS Weazel

Eleven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS "Weazel", an archaic spelling of weasel, while another was planned:

*HMS|Weazel|1704|6 was a 10-gun sloop launched in 1704 and sold in 1712.
*HMS|Weazel|1721|6 was an 8-gun sloop launched in 1721 and sold in 1732.
*HMS|Weazel|1745|6 was a 16-gun sloop purchased on the stocks and launched in 1745. She was captured by the French ship "Boudeuse" in 1779.
*HMS|Weazel|1783|6 was a 14-gun brig-sloop launched in 1783 and wrecked in 1799.
*HMS|Weazel|1799|6 was a 16-gun brig-sloop launched in 1799 and purchased that year. She was wrecked in 1803.
*HMS|Weazel|1805|6 was an 18-gun "Cruizer" class brig-sloop launched in 1805 and sold in 1815.
*HMS|Weazel|1808|6 was a 10-gun schooner purchased in 1808 and on the navy lists until 1811.
*HMS|Weazel|1822|6 was a 10-gun "Cherokee" class brig-sloop launched in 1822 and sold in 1844.
*HMS|Weazel|1855|6 was a "Dapper" class wood screw gunboat launched in 1855 and sold in 1869.
*HMS|Weazel|1873|6 was an "Ant" class iron screw gunboat launched in 1873. She became an oil fuel lighter in 1904 and was renamed "C 118".
*HMS|Weazel|1906|6 was a tender, previously the War Department vessel "Sir W. Green". She was transferred to the Royal Navy in 1906 and was renamed HMS "Stoat" in 1918. She was sold in 1923.
*HMS "Weazel" was to have been a W class destroyer. The order was cancelled in 1918.