HMS Swan

HMS Swan

Nineteen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS "Swan", or the archaic HMS "Swann", after the bird, the Swan:

*HMS|Swann|1417|6 was a balinger acquired 1417 and sold 1423.
*HMS|Swann|1572|6 was a vessel sailing with Sir Francis Drake in 1572.
*HMS|Swann|1577|6 was a flyboat sailing with Drake in 1577. She was lost in 1578.
*HMS|Swann|1632|6 was a 'frigat' listed in service between 1632 and 1633.
*HMS|Swan|1641|6 was a ship launched in 1641 and wrecked in 1653.
*HMS|Swann|1652|6 was a 22-gun ship captured in 1652 and sold in 1654.
*HMS|Swann|1665|6 was a 6-gun flyboat captured from the Dutch in 1665 and sold in 1666.
*HMS|Swann|1666|6 was a smack launched in 1666 and captured by the Dutch in 1673.
*HMS|Swann|1667|6 was a 2-gun fireship purchased in 1667 and expended that year.
*HMS|Swann|1673|6 was a 32-gun fifth rate captured from the Dutch in 1673. She was converted into a 10-gun fireship between 1688 and 1689 and was wrecked in 1692.
*HMS|Swann|1684|6 was a sixth rate captured from the Algerians in 1684 and sold that year.
*HMS|Swann|1694|6 was a 24-gun sixth rate launched in 1694. She foundered in 1707.
*HMS|Swann|1709|6 was a 12-gun sixth rate launched in 1709 and sold in 1713.
*HMS|Swan|1745|6 was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1745 and sold in 1763.
*HMS|Swan|1767|6 was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1767. She bore the name HMS "Explosion" between 1779 and 1783 whilst being used as a fireship. She was sold in 1814.
*HMS "Swan" was an 18-gun sloop, previously purchased from civilian service in 1781 and named HMS "Bonetta". She was renamed HMS "Swan" in 1782, but capsized later that year.
*HMS|Swan|1788|6 was a 10-gun cutter purchased in 1788 for the Revenue Service, transferred to the Royal Navy in 1790 and wrecked in 1792.
*HMS|Swan|1811|6 was a 10-gun cutter launched in 1811, lent to the Church Mission Society in 1844, and broken up in 1874.
*HMS|Swan|1856|6 was an "Albacore" class wood screw gunboat launched in 1856, used as a coal hulk from 1869 and sold in 1906.

ee also

*HMS|Swann Prize
*HMAS|Swan
*HMCS|Swansea
*HMS|Swanston
*HMS|Black Swan
*HMS|Wild Swan


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