HMS Vixen

HMS Vixen

Five ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS "Vixen", the term for a female Fox:

*HMS|Vixen|1801|6 was a 14-gun gun-brig launched in 1801 and sold in 1815.
*HMS|Vixen|1841|6 was a wood paddle sloop launched in 1841 and sold in 1862.
*HMS|Vixen|1865|6 was an armoured composite gunboat launched in 1865 and ordered to be broken up in 1895.
*HMS|Vixen|1900|6 was a destroyer launched in 1900, reclassified as a C class destroyer in 1913 and sold in 1921.
*HMS|Vixen|R64|6 was a V class destroyer launched in 1943. She was transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy in 1944 and renamed HMCS|Sioux|R64|6. She was converted into a frigate in 1959 and was broken up in 1965.


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