HMS Swallow

Thirty two ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS "Swallow", after the bird, the Swallow:

*HMS "Swallow" was a ship launched in 1497
*HMS|Swallow|1544|6 was a 53-gun ship launched in 1544, rebuilt in 1558 and 1580 and sold in 1603.
*HMS|Swallow|1558|6 was a discovery vessel listed in the Arctic in 1558 and captured by the Spanish in 1568.
*HMS|Swallow|1573|6 was an 8-gun pinnace built in 1573 and condemned in 1603.
*HMS|Swallow|1583|6 was a vessel listed in Newfoundland in 1583.
*HMS|Swallow|1634|6 was a 40-gun ship launched in 1634. She served in the Royalist Navy from 1648 and was sold in 1653.
*HMS|Swallow|1657|6 was a 6-gun ketch launched in 1657 and given to the Irish Packet Service in 1661.
*HMS|Swallow|1653|6 was a 40-gun ship launched in 1653 as "Gainsborough". She was renamed HMS "Swallow" in 1660 and was wrecked in 1692.
*HMS|Swallow|1672|6 was a 2-gun sloop launched in 1672 and lost in 1673.
*HMS|Swallow|1699|6 was a 6-gun sloop launched in 1699 and captured by a French privateer in 1703.
*HMS|Swallow|1703|6 was a 54-gun fourth rate launched in 1703, rebuilt in 1719 and broken up in 1728.
*HMS|Swallow|1732|6 was a 60-gun fourth rate launched in 1732. She was renamed HMS "Princess Louisa" in 1737 and was broken up in 1742.
*HMS "Swallow" was a sloop, launched in 1744 as HMS "Galgo". She was renamed HMS "Swallow" that year, but was wrecked at the end of 1744.
*HMS|Swallow|1745|6 was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1745, used for the impress service from 1762 and sold in 1769.
*HMS|Swallow|1766|6 was a discovery vessel serving in the Pacific in 1766 and broken up in 1769.
*HMS|Swallow|1769|6 was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1769. She foundered in 1777.
*HMS|Swallow|1770|6 was a 14-gun ketch launched in 1770 and lost in 1776.
*HMS|Swallow|1777|6 was a 14-gun packet launched in 1777. She was sold to the Danish in 1780, recaptured in 1782, and possibly renamed HMS "Silly". She was sold into mercantile service in 1784.
*HMS|Swallow|1779|6 was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1779 and driven ashore in 1781.
*HMS|Swallow|1781|6 was a 16-gun sloop, previously a cutter purchased on the stocks and launched in 1781. SHe was sold in 1795.
*HMS|Swallow|1793|6 was a tender in service between 1793 and 1795.
*HMS|Swallow|1795|6 was an 18-gun brig-sloop launched in 1795 and sold in 1802.
*HMS|Swallow|1805|6 was an 18-gun "Cruizer" class brig-sloop launched in 1805 and broken up in 1815.
*HMS|Swallow|1811|6 was a cutter tender launched in 1811 and lost in 1825.
*HMS|Swallow|1824|6 was a 10-gun brig-sloop, formerly the packet "Marquis of Salisbury". She was purchased in 1824 and sold in 1836.
*HMS|Swallow|1831|6 was a wood paddle packet, previously the General Post Office vessel "Ferret". She was launched in 1831, transferred to the Royal Navy in 1837 and was broken up in 1848.
*HMS|Swallow|1854|6 was a wood screw sloop launched in 1854 and sold in 1866.
*HMS|Swallow|1868|6 was a wood screw gunvessel launched in 1868 and sold in 1882.
*HMS|Swallow|1885|6 was a composite screw sloop launched in 1885 and sold in 1904.
*HMS|Swallow|1918|6 was an S class destroyer launched in 1918, handed over to the breakers in part payment for RMS "Majestic" in 1936, and subsequently broken up.
*HMS "Swallow" was to have been a C class destroyer. She was renamed HMS "Caprice" in 1942 and launched in 1943.
*HMS "Swallow" was a "Peacock" class patrol vessel launched in 1984. She was sold to the Irish Naval Service in 1988 and renamed LÉ "Ciara".

ee also

*HMS|Swallow Ketch
*HMS|Swallow Prize