Editing HMS Mermaid

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Sixteen ships of the [[Royal Navy]] and its predecessors have been named '''''Mermaid''''' after the [[mermaid]]:

*{{ship|English ship|Mermaid|1545}} was a [[galley]] captured in 1545 and listed until 1563.
*{{ship|English ship|Mermaid|1651}} was a 24-gun ship of the navy of the [[Commonwealth of England]] launched in 1651 and taken into the new [[Royal Navy]] in 1660, rebuilt as a 32-gun [[fifth rate]] in 1689, rebuilt again in 1707 and broken up in 1734.
*{{HMS|Mermaid|1692}} was an 8-gun [[fireship]] captured in 1692 and burnt by accident in 1693.
*[[HMS Kennington (1736)|HMS ''Mermaid'']] was to have been a 24-gun [[sixth rate]]. She was renamed {{HMS|Kennington|1736|6}} in 1735 and launched in 1736.
*[[HMS Ruby (1708)|HMS ''Mermaid'']] was a 54-gun [[fourth rate]] launched in 1708 as {{HMS|Ruby|1708|6}}. She was renamed HMS ''Mermaid'' in 1744 and was sold in 1748.
*{{HMS|Mermaid|1749}} was a 24-gun sixth-rate [[frigate]] launched in 1749 and wrecked in 1760.
*{{HMS|Mermaid|1761}} was a 28-gun sixth-rate frigate launched in 1761 and wrecked during combat in 1778.
*{{HMS|Mermaid|1782}} was a 32-gun fifth-rate frigate launched in 1784 and broken up in 1815.
*{{HMS|Mermaid|1798}} was a 1-gun [[gunboat|gunvessel]] purchased in 1798 and sold in 1800. 
*{{HMS|Mermaid|1817}} was a [[cutter (boat)|cutter]] built at [[Howrah]] in 1816, purchased by the Australian Government in 1817 for use as a [[survey vessel]]. Wrecked off [[Cairns]] in 1829.
*{{HMS|Mermaid|1825}} was a 46-gun fifth-rate frigate launched in 1825, used as a powder hulk from 1850, lent to the war department in 1863 and broken up by 1875.
*{{HMS|Mermaid|1853}} was a [[Her Majesty's Coastguard|coastguard]] vessel purchased in 1853 and sold in 1890.
*{{HMS|Mermaid|1898}} was a {{sclass|Mermaid|destroyer}} launched in 1898 and sold in 1919.
*{{HMS|Mermaid|U30}} was a [[Black Swan-class sloop|modified ''Black Swan''-class]] [[sloop-of-war|sloop]] launched in 1943. She was transferred to the [[German Navy]] in 1959 and renamed ''Scharnhorst'', was hulked for damage control training between 1974 and 1989, and was towed to be broken up in 1990.
*[[HMS Sullington (M1184)|HMS ''Mermaid'' (M1184)]] was a {{sclass2|Ton|minesweeper}} launched in 1954 as {{HMS|Sullington|M1184|6}}. She was renamed HMS ''Mermaid'' on her conversion to a survey vessel in 1965. She was sold in 1970.
* {{HMS|Mermaid|F76}} was a frigate, built for the [[Ghana Navy]] as ''Black Star'' but cancelled, launched in 1966 but unused until purchased by the Royal Navy in 1972. Sold to the [[Royal Malaysian Navy]] as {{ship|KD|Hang Tuah}} in 1977, later refitted as a [[training ship]].

==Battle honours==
Ships named ''Mermaid'' have earned the following [[Battle honour#Naval battle honours|battle honours]]:
*[[Capture of Cádiz|Cadiz]] 1596
*[[Battle of Dover (1652)|Dover]] 1652
*[[Battle of the Gabbard|Gabbard]] 1653
*[[Battle of Scheveningen|Scheveningen]] 1653
*[[Action of 14 April 1655|Porto Farina]] 1655
*[[Battle of Lowestoft|Lowestoft]] 1665
*Belgian Coast 1914–17
*[[Arctic naval operations of World War II|Arctic]] 1944

==See also==
*{{HMAS|Mermaid|A 02|6}} is a {{sclass|Paluma|survey motor launch|0}} survey motor launch of the [[Royal Australian Navy]], launched in 1989 and currently in service.
*His Majesty's [[Hired armed vessels|hired armed vessel]] ''Mermaid'', which was present at the [[Vlieter Incident]] in August 1799.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=15545|page=10|date=28 December 1802}}</ref>

==Citations==
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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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