HMS Eaglet

HMS Eaglet

Five ships and a training establishment of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS "Eaglet":

*HMS "Eaglet" was an 8-gun ketch built in 1655 and sold in 1674.
*HMS "Eaglet" was a 10-gun ketch launched in 1691 and captured in 1693 by the French off the Isle of Arran.
*HMS "Eaglet" was previously HMS "Eagle", renamed whilst a training ship in 1918, lost in a fire in 1926, and the wreck sold in 1927.
*HMS "Eaglet" was a paddle vessel, hired between 1855 and 1857.

The third HMS "Eaglet" became the Royal Naval Reserve training centre for Merseyside, North West England and North Wales. After her destruction in a fire in 1926, one other ship took the name whilst serving as the home of the centre.
*HMS "Sir Bevis", a 24 class sloop was HMS "Eaglet" from 1926 until she was broken up in 1971.

ee also

HMS "Eagle" - for similarly named ships of the Royal Navy.


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