HMS Hound

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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.
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