Editing 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.

* {{ship|English ship|Greyhound|1545}} was a 45-gun ship built in 1545, rebuilt 1558, and wrecked 1563
* ''Greyhound'' was a ship in service in 1585
* {{ship|English ship|Greyhound|1636}} was a 12-gun ship launched in 1636 and blown up 1656 in action with the Spanish
* {{ship|English ship|Greyhound|1657}} was a 20-gun ship captured from the Royalists in 1657 and used as a [[fire ship]] in 1666
* {{ship|English ship|Greyhound|1672}} was a 16-gun [[sixth rate]] in service from 1672 to 1698
* {{HMS|Greyhound|1694}} was a 6-gun [[bomb vessel]] purchased in 1694 and sold 1698
* {{HMS|Greyhound|1702}} was a 42-gun [[fifth rate]] launched at Ipswich in 1702 and wrecked off Teignmouth (or Tynemouth?) August 1711
* {{HMS|Greyhound|1712}} was a 20-gun sixth rate launched in 1712 and captured by the Spanish in 1718
* {{HMS|Greyhound|1719}} was a 20-gun sixth rate launched in 1719, in Spanish hands from April 1722 for a short period, and broken up 1741
* {{HMS|Greyhound|1741}} was a 20-gun sixth rate in service from 1741 to 1768
* {{HMS|Greyhound|1763}} was a 15-gun [[Cutter (ship)|cutter]] purchased in 1763, hulked in 1776, and sold 1780
* {{HMS|Greyhound|1773}} was a 28-gun sixth rate launched in 1773 and wrecked 1780
* {{HMS|Greyhound|1780}} was a 14-gun cutter purchased in 1780, renamed ''Viper'' in 1781, and sold in October 1809
* {{HMS|Greyhound|1783}} 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 (1847)|Naval General Service Medal]], which the [[British Admiralty|Admiralty]] authorised in 1850 for all surviving claimants.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=21077|pages=791–792|date=15 March 1850}}</ref>{{efn|A first-class share of the prize money awarded in April 1823 was worth [[£sd|£]]34 2[[shilling|s]] 4[[pence|d]]; a fifth-class share, that of a seaman, was worth 3s 11½d. The amount was small as the total had to be shared between 79 vessels and the entire army contingent.<ref>{{London Gazette|page=633 |issue=17915|date=3 April 1823}}</ref>}} 
* {{HMS|Euphrates|1813}} was laid down as ''Greyhound'', but renamed before launching
* {{HMS|Greyhound|1859}} was a {{sclass|Greyhound|sloop|0}} [[Sloop-of-war|sloop]] launched in 1859, reduced to harbour service in 1869, and sold 1906
* {{HMS|Greyhound|1900}} was a {{sclass|Greyhound|destroyer}} in service from 1900 to 1919
* {{HMS|Greyhound|H05}} was a [[G and H-class destroyer|G-class]] destroyer launched in 1935 and sunk by German dive bombers in 1941
* HMS ''Greyhound'' was to be a [[G-class destroyer (1944)|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
* {{ship|English ship|Flying Greyhound|1665}}, a 24-gun ship captured in 1665 and sold in 1667.<!---[[HMS Flying Greyhound]] redirects here-->

==Notes==
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==References==
* {{Cite Colledge2006}}
* {{cite book |first=Rif|last=Winfield|title=British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793&ndash;1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates|publisher=Seaforth|year=2008|isbn=978-1861762467}}

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