HMS Decoy

HMS Decoy

At least four vessels of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS "Decoy".

* "Decoy", a gunboat launched in 1871 and sold in 1885.
* "Decoy", a torpedo boat destroyer launched in 1894 and sunk in a collision in 1904.
* "Decoy", a D class destroyer launched in 1932 and transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy in 1943 as HMCS "Kootenay", then broken up in 1946.
* "Decoy" (D106), a destroyer launched in 1949 and sold to the Peruvian Navy in 1970 as BAP "Ferré" (DM-74), decommissioned in 2007. She was originally to have been named "Dragon".


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