HMS Lynx

Ten Royal Navy ships have been named HMS "Lynx" after the wild cat:

* "Lynx" was a 10-gun sloop launched in 1761 and sold on 1777.
* "Lynx" was a 16-gun sloop launched in 1777. Converted to a hospital ship in 1780, the ship was sold on 1783.
* "Lynx" was a 16-gun sloop launched in 1794 and sold on 1813.
* "Lynx" was to have been an 18-gun "Cruizer" class brig-sloop. Originally ordered in 1812 as HMS "Pandora" she was renamed "Lynx". However construction was cancelled in 1818.
* "Lynx" was a "Cherokee" class brig-sloop launched in 1833 and broken up in 1845.
* "Lynx" was an "Arrow"-class wooden screw gunvessel launched in 1854 and sold in 1862.
* "Lynx" was a composite screw gunvessel launched in 1868 and sold in 1888.
* "Lynx" was a "Ferret" class destroyer launched in 1894 and sold in 1912.
* "Lynx" was a "Acasta" class destroyer launched in 1913 and sunk by a mine in the Moray Firth in 1915.
* "Lynx" was a Type 41 (or "Leopard")-class frigate launched in 1955, sold to Bangladesh in 1982 and renamed "Abu Bakr".

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