HMS Fawn

Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Fawn:

• HMS Fawn (1805), a 16-gun brig-corvette, originally the French ship Faune, that Goliath captured in the English Channel in 1805 and that disappears from the records in 1806.
• HMS Fawn (1807), an 18-gun sloop-of-war launched in 1807, sold in 1818; she then made seven whaling voyages from 1820 until she was broken up in 1844.
• HMS Fawn (1840), a 6-gun brigantine, originally the Portuguese slaver Caroline, captured by HMS Electra on 25 March 1839 near Rio de Janeiro.[1] She was purchased there on 27 May 1840, converted in 1842 to a tank (water) vessel at the Cape of Good Hope Station, and sold in May 1847 to the Natal Colonial Government.[2][3]
• HMS Fawn (1856), a 17-gun wood screw sloop-of-war launched in 1856, used as a survey ship from 1876 and sold in 1884
• HMS Fawn (1897) was a Fawn-class destroyer launched in 1897 and sold in 1919
• HMS Fawn (A325) was a Bulldog-class survey ship launched in 1968 and sold in 1991

Battle honours

Ships named Fawn have earned the following battle honours:[note 1]

• Gabbard, 1653
• Martinique, 1809
• Guadeloupe, 1810
• Belgian Coast, 1914−18

Note

1. In the Royal Navy, and other Commonwealth navies that follow the traditions of the RN, battle honours awarded to a ship are inherited by subsequent ships to bear the same name, and are displayed on the ship's honours board.[4]

References

1. "Rio Janeiro, South America". The Standard. No. 4678. London. 18 June 1839. p. 5. Retrieved 13 June 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
2. Lyon, David; Winfield, Rif (2004). The sail & steam Navy list: all the ships of the Royal Navy 1815 - 1889. London: Chatham. p. 336. ISBN 1-86176-032-9.
3. Colledge, J. J. (1969). Ships of the Royal Navy: An Historical Index. Vol.I. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. p. 205.
4. "Battle Honours of RN ships & Naval Air Squadrons". Royal Navy Research Archive.