Editing HMS Hunter

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Eighteen ships of the [[Royal Navy]] have borne the name '''''Hunter''''':

* {{ship|English ship|Hunter|1646}} was a [[Dogger (boat)|dogger]] captured in 1646 and sold in 1649.
* {{ship|English ship|Hunter|1652}} was a 10-gun [[fire ship]], previously the French [[sloop-of-war|sloop]] ''Chasseur'', captured in 1652.  She was burnt in 1653.
* {{ship|English ship|Hunter|1656}} was a 6-gun [[Cavalier|Royalist]] vessel, captured by the [[Roundhead|Parliamentarians]] in 1656.  She foundered in 1661.
* {{HMS|Hunter|1672}} was a 30-gun [[fifth rate]] captured from the Dutch in 1672.  She was on the [[Navy List]] until 1677.
* {{HMS|Hunter|1673}} was a 4-gun sloop launched in 1673 and sold in 1683.
* {{HMS|Hunter|1690}} was an 8-gun fire ship launched in 1690.  She was rebuilt as a 24-gun [[sixth rate]] in 1710 and was captured by the Spanish later that year.
* {{HMS|Hunter|1739}} was a 10-gun fire ship purchased in 1739 and renamed HMS ''Vulcan'' in 1740.  She was hulked in 1743.
* {{HMS|Hunter|1756}} was a 10-gun sloop launched in 1756.  She was captured in 1775 by an American [[privateer]], but was recaptured in 1776 by {{HMS|Greyhound|1763|6}}. ''Hunter'' was declared unfit for service and sold in 1780.
* {{HMS|Hunter|1763}} was an 8-gun [[cutter (ship)|cutter]] purchased in 1763 and sold in 1771.
* {{HMS|Hunter|1796}} was a 16-gun sloop purchased, one of three ordered from builders in [[Bermuda]] in 1796 (the others being [[HMS Dasher (1797)|HMS Dasher]] and [[HMS Driver (1797)|HMS Driver]]). She was launched in 1796, and wrecked in 1797.
* {{HMS|Hunter|1801}} was an 18-gun [[brig-sloop]] purchased in 1801 and broken up in 1809.
* {{HMS|General Hunter}} was a 10-gun [[brig]] launched in 1805 and captured by the Americans in 1813.
* {{HMS|Hunter|1856}} was a {{sclass|Clown|gunboat|0}} wood screw [[gunboat]] launched in 1856. She was placed on the sale list in 1869 and was sold in 1884.
* {{HMS|Hunter|1895}} was a {{sclass|Handy|destroyer}} launched in 1895 and sold in 1912.
* {{HMS|Hunter|H35}} was an [[G and H-class destroyer|H-class]] destroyer launched in 1936 and sunk in 1940.
* {{HMS|Hunter|D80}} was a {{sclass|Bogue|escort carrier}}, launched for the [[US Navy]] as USS ''Block Island'', loaned to the Royal Navy, at first as HMS ''Trailer'' and then from late 1942 as HMS ''Hunter''.  She was returned to the US Navy in 1945.
* {{HMS|Hunter|1945}} was a [[Landing Ship, Tank|Tank landing ship]] launched in 1945 as {{HMS|LST 3042}}. She was renamed HMS ''Hunter'' in 1947, and transferred to the [[Department for Transport|Ministry of Transport]] in 1956, being renamed {{SS|Empire Curlew|1945|6}}.  She was broken up in 1962.
* {{HMS|Hunter|P284}} was an {{sclass|Attacker|patrol boat|0}} patrol and training boat launched in 1983 and sold to Lebanon in 1991.

==See also==
* {{HMCS|Hunter}}, a [[Canadian Forces Naval Reserve]] division in [[Windsor, Ontario]]

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