HMS Hound

Fifteen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS "Hound":

*HMS "Hound" was a 36-gun ship captured in 1652, a hulk in 1656 and broken up in 1660.
*HMS "Hound" was an 18-gun ship captured in 1656 and expended as a fire ship in 1666.
*HMS "Hound" was a 4-gun sloop built in 1673 and sold in 1686.
*HMS "Hound" was an 8-gun fire ship launched in 1690 and expended in 1692.
*HMS "Hound" was a 4-gun sloop launched in 1700 and broken up in 1714.
*HMS "Hound" was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1732 and broken up in 1745.
*HMS "Hound" was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1745 and sold in 1773.
*HMS "Hound" was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1776. She was in French hands between 1780 and 1782, when she was renamed "Levrette". She was recaptured and broken up in 1784.
*HMS "Hound" was a 16-gun sloop launched in 1790 and captured in the Atlantic by the French in 1794.
*HMS "Hound" was a 16-gun brig-sloop launched in 1796 and wrecked in 1800 off the Shetlands.
*HMS "Hound" was a 16-gun sloop previously named "Monarch". She was purchased in 1801, converted to a bomb vessel in 1808 and broken up in 1812.
*HMS "Hound" was to have been an 8-gun brig, ordered in 1839 from Chatham Dockyard. The order was cancelled in 1844 and transferred to Deptford Dockyard where she was completed as the next HMS "Hound".
*HMS "Hound" was an 8-gun brig launched in 1846, used as a breakwater from 1872 and sold in 1887.
*HMS "Hound" was to have been an "Albacore" class gunboat, but was renamed HMS "Mastiff" in 1855, prior to launching.
*HMS "Hound" was an "Algerine" class minesweeper launched in 1942 and broken up in 1962.