Editing HMS Comet

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The [[Royal Navy]] has used the name '''''Comet''''' no fewer than 18 times:

* {{HMS|Comet|1695}} was a 4-gun [[bomb vessel]] built in 1695 that the French captured in 1706.
* {{HMS|Comet|1742}} was a 14-gun bomb vessel in use from 1742 to 1749, when she was sold.<ref>{{London Gazette|date=6 May 1749|issue=8847|page=2}}</ref> She became the armed merchant vessel named ''Adventure'' that appears in ''[[Lloyd's Register]]'' between 1776,<ref>[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015004741958?urlappend=%3Bseq=10 ''Lloyd's Register'' (1776), Seq. №A87.]</ref> and 1784.<ref>[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015065522776?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''Lloyd's Register'' (1784), Seq. №A82.]</ref>
* {{HMS|Comet|1756}} was an 8-gun [[galley]] used in 1756.
* {{HMS|Comet|1758}} was a 10-gun [[brig-sloop]] built in India in 1758.
* HMS ''Comet'' was the name given to the 10-gun sloop {{HMS|Diligence|1756|6}} after her recommissioning as a [[fireship]] in 1779.
* {{ship|HM galley|Comet|1777}} was a schooner that South Carolina Navy purchased in 1775, converted into a brigantine, and named ''Comet''. The RN captured her in 1777 and converted her into a galley that was destroyed in 1779 during the [[Siege of Savannah]].
*[[Betsey (1768 ship)|HMS ''Comet'']] was the [[Guineaman]] (slave ship) ''Betsey'' that the Royal Navy purchased at Antigua in 1777 and armed with 10-14 guns. The navy sold her in Britain in 1778.
* HM Schooner ''Comet'', of 10 guns, formerly "McDonogh's Packet", operated in 1777 and captured three American vessels in May. She may have been a [[ship's tender]] to {{HMS|Aeolus|1758|6}}.
* HMS ''Comet'' was commissioned in 1780 and paid off in 1782.<ref name=Winfield>Winfield (2007), p.335.</ref> On 23 December 1781 the "bomb-galley" ''Comet'' participated in an invasion of Georgia.<ref>''Gentleman's and London Magazine: Or Monthly Chronologer, 1741-1794'', p.207.</ref>
* {{HMS|Comet|1783}} was a fireship built in 1783 and used in 1800 at [[Raid on Dunkirk (1800)|Dunkirk Roads]].
* {{HMS|Comet|1807}} was launched in 1807 as a ''Thais''-class [[fireship]] of the [[Royal Navy]]. In 1808 the class were re-rated as sloops, and in 1811 they were re-rated as 20-gun [[sixth rate]]s. ''Comet'' participated in one action that resulted in her crew being awarded the Naval General Service Medal, and some other actions and captures. The Navy sold her in 1815. In 1816 she became an [[East Indiaman]], sailing under a license from the British [[East India Company]] (EIC). She sailed between the United Kingdom and [[Ceylon]]. It was on one of these journeys that she was wrecked on Cole House Point on the [[River Thames]] on 9 August 1828.
* {{HMS|Comet|1822}} was launched in 1822, making her the first steam-powered vessel of the Royal Navy, although not added to the Navy List until 1831.
* {{HMS|Comet|1828}} was an 18-gun {{sclass|Comet|sloop|2}} launched in 1828, renamed ''Comus'' in 1832, and broken up 1862.
* HMS ''Comet'' was the former {{HMS|Thunderer|1831|6}}, renamed in 1869.
* {{HMS|Comet|1870}} was an {{sclass|Ant|gunboat|0}} [[flat-iron gunboat]] launched in 1870 and sold for breaking in 1908.
* {{HMS|Comet|1910}} was an {{sclass|Acorn|destroyer}} launched in 1910 and sunk by an Austrian [[submarine]] in 1918.
* {{HMS|Comet|H00}} was a [[C and D-class destroyer|1930s C-class]] [[destroyer]] launched in 1931, renamed ''Restigouche'' in 1938, and broken up in 1946.
* {{HMS|Comet|R26}} was a [[C-class destroyer (1943)|1940s C-class]] destroyer in service from 1944 to 1962.

==Citations==
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==References==
*{{Cite Colledge2006}}
*{{cite book |first=Rif|last=Winfield|title=British Warships in the Age of Sail 1714&ndash;1792: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates|publisher=Seaforth|year=2007|isbn=978-1844157006}}

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