Seven vessels of the Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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 have been named HMS Arab:
was a 16-gun sloop-of-war

Sloop-of-war

In the 18th and most of the 19th centuries, a sloop-of-war was a warship with a single gun deck that carried up to eighteen guns. As the rating system covered all vessels with 20 guns and above, this meant that the term sloop-of-war actually encompassed all the unrated combat vessels including the...

, originally the French corvette

Corvette

A corvette is a small, maneuverable, lightly armed warship, originally smaller than a frigate and larger than a coastal patrol craft or fast attack craft , although many recent designs resemble frigates in size and role...

 Jean Bart, captured in 1795 in the English Channel

English Channel

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 by HMS Cerberus

HMS Cerberus (1794)

HMS Cerberus was a 32-gun fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She served in the French Revolutionary and the Napoleonic Wars in the Channel, the Mediterranean, the Adriatic, and even briefly in the Baltic against the Russians. She participated in one boat action that won for her crew a clasp to...

 and HMS Santa Margarita, and wrecked in 1796. was an 8-gun schooner, the former French Arabe, captured in 1797, renamed Ant in 1798, and sold in 1815. was a 22-gun post ship

Post ship

Post ship was a designation used in the Royal Navy during the Age of Sail to describe a ship of the sixth-rate that was smaller than a frigate , but by virtue of being a rated ship , had to have as its captain a post captain rather than a lieutenant or commander...

, originally the French flush-decked privateer Brave, captured in 1798 and fitted as a quarterdecked sloop in the same year. She was sold in 1810. was an 18-gun Cruizer-class

Cruizer class brig-sloop

The Cruizer class was an 18-gun class of brig-sloops of the Royal Navy. Brig-sloops were the same as ship-sloops except for their rigging...

 brig-sloop launched in 1812 and wrecked in 1823 off Ireland

Ireland

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. was a 16-gun launched in 1847. She was transferred as Coastguard watchvessel No. 18 in 1863 and was broken up in 1879. was an , launched in 1874 and sold in 1889. was a B-class

B class destroyer (1913)

The B class as designated in 1913 was a heterogeneous group of torpedo boat destroyers built for the Royal Navy in the late 1890s. They were constructed to the individual designs of their builders to meet Admiralty specifications, the uniting feature being a specified top speed of and 4 funnels,...

 destroyer

Destroyer

In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast and maneuverable yet long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet, convoy or battle group and defend them against smaller, powerful, short-range attackers. Destroyers, originally called torpedo-boat destroyers in 1892, evolved from...

 launched in 1901 and sold in 1919.

See also

• HMT Arab
  HMT Arab
  HM Trawler Arab was a trawler launched in 1936. At the outbreak of World War II, she became a naval trawler serving in the Royal Naval Patrol Service during World War II. Lieutenant Richard Been Stannard won the Victoria Cross while serving as her commander during the Namsos campaign in 1940...
  
  , a naval trawler
  Naval trawler
  A naval trawler is a vessel built along the lines of a fishing trawler but fitted out for naval purposes. Naval trawlers were widely used during the First and Second world wars. Fishing trawlers were particularly suited for many naval requirements because they were robust boats designed to work...
  
   commanded by Richard Stannard
  Richard Been Stannard
  Captain Richard Been Stannard VC DSO RD was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces....
  
   VC
  Victoria Cross
  The Victoria Cross is the highest military decoration awarded for valour "in the face of the enemy" to members of the armed forces of various Commonwealth countries, and previous British Empire territories....
  
  . He received the VC for his actions from 28 April to 2 May 1940 at Namsos
  Namsos
  is a town and municipality in Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Namdalen region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Namsos. Other villages in the municipality include Bangsund, Klinga, Ramsvika, Skomsvoll, and Spillum....
  
  , Norway
  Norway
  Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
  
  , when HMT Arab survived 31 bombing attacks in five days.
• HMS Arabis
  HMS Arabis
  Three ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Arabis, after the flower, the Arabis. was an Arabis class sloop launched in 1915 and sunk in 1916. was a Flower class corvette launched in 1940. She was transferred to the US Navy in 1942 as USS Saucy. She was returned in 1945, renamed HMS...