HMS Ferret

HMS Ferret

Fifteen ships and two shore establishments of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS "Ferret", after the domestic mammal, the Ferret:

*HMS|Ferret|1704|6 was a 10-gun sloop launched in 1704 and captured by the French in 1706.
*HMS|Ferret|1711|6 was a 10-gun sloop launched in 1711 and captured by the Spanish in 1718.
*HMS|Ferret|1721|6 was a 6-gun sloop launched in 1721 and sold in 1731.
*HMS|Ferret|1743|6 was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1743. She foundered in a hurricane in 1757.
*HMS|Ferret|1760|6 was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1760. She foundered in a hurricane in 1776.
*HMS|Ferret|1763|6 was a 6-gun cutter launched in 1763 and sold in 1781.
*HMS|Ferret|1784|6 was a 12-gun brig-sloop launched in 1784 and sold in 1801.
*HMS|Ferret|1794|6 was a 4-gun gunboat. She was an ex-hoy purchased in 1794 and sold in 1802.
*HMS|Ferret|1799|6 was a 6-gun schooner purchased in 1799 and captured that year by the Spanish.
*HMS|Ferret|1806|6 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.
*HMS|Ferret|1821|6 was a 10-gun "Cherokee" class brig-sloop launched in 1821 and sold in 1837.
*HMS|Ferret|1840|6 was an 8-gun brig launched in 1840 and wrecked in 1869.
*HMS|Ferret|1893|6 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.
*HMS|Ferret|1911|6 was an "Acheron" class destroyer launched in 1911 and sold in 1921.
*HMS|Ferret|shore establishment 1940|6 was an anti-submarine training establishment at Londonderry between 1940 and 1947.
*HMS|Ferret|shore establishment 1982|6 is a Royal Naval Reserve training centre formed in 1989 at the Intelligence Corps centre in Ashford, Kent. The unit transferred with the Corps and the Defence Intelligence and Security Centre to Chicksands in 1997.

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