HMS Greyhound

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Sixteen different ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Greyhound, after the greyhound, a breed of dog notable for its speed.

• Template:Ship was a 45-gun ship built in 1545, rebuilt 1558, and wrecked 1563
• Greyhound was a ship in service in 1585
• Template:Ship was a 12-gun ship launched in 1636 and blown up 1656 in action with the Spanish
• Template:Ship was a 20-gun ship captured from the Royalists in 1657 and used as a fire ship in 1666
• Template:Ship was a 16-gun sixth rate in service from 1672 to 1698
• Template:HMS was a 6-gun bomb vessel purchased in 1694 and sold 1698
• Template:HMS was a 42-gun fifth rate launched at Ipswich in 1702 and wrecked off Teignmouth (or Tynemouth?) August 1711
• Template:HMS was a 20-gun sixth rate launched in 1712 and captured by the Spanish in 1718
• Template:HMS was a 20-gun sixth rate launched in 1719, in Spanish hands from April 1722 for a short period, and broken up 1741
• Template:HMS was a 20-gun sixth rate in service from 1741 to 1768
• Template:HMS was a 15-gun cutter purchased in 1763, hulked in 1776, and sold 1780
• Template:HMS was a 28-gun sixth rate launched in 1773 and wrecked 1780
• Template:HMS was a 14-gun cutter purchased in 1780, renamed Viper in 1781, and sold in October 1809
• Template:HMS was a 32-gun fifth rate launched 1783 and wrecked 1808. Because Greyhound served in the navy's Egyptian campaign between 8 March 1801 and 2 September, her officers and crew qualified for the clasp "Egypt" to the Naval General Service Medal, which the Admiralty authorised in 1850 for all surviving claimants.<ref>Template:London Gazette</ref>Template:Efn
• Template:HMS was laid down as Greyhound, but renamed before launching
• Template:HMS was a Template:Sclass sloop launched in 1859, reduced to harbour service in 1869, and sold 1906
• Template:HMS was a Template:Sclass in service from 1900 to 1919
• Template:HMS was a G-class destroyer launched in 1935 and sunk by German dive bombers in 1941
• HMS Greyhound was to be a G-class destroyer, ordered in 1944 but cancelled in December 1945

See also

• At least one revenue cutter Greyhound
• The armed cutter Greyhound of 12 guns, hired from 10 August 1798 to 13 February 1799
• Template:Ship, a 24-gun ship captured in 1665 and sold in 1667.

References

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| last1 = Colledge
| first1 = J. J. 
| author-link1= J. J. Colledge
| last2 = Warlow
| first2 = Ben
| date = 2006
| orig-date = 1969
| title = Ships of the Royal Navy: {{#if:|The Complete Record of All Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy|The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy}}
| edition = Rev.
| location = London
| publisher = Chatham Publishing
| isbn = 978-1-86176-281-8

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