Four ships of the Royal Navy

Royal Navy

The Royal Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Founded in the 16th century, it is the oldest service branch and is known as the Senior Service...

 have borne the name HMS Hyaena, after the Hyena

Hyena

Hyenas or Hyaenas are the animals of the family Hyaenidae of suborder feliforms of the Carnivora. It is the fourth smallest biological family in the Carnivora , and one of the smallest in the mammalia...

, a family of carnivorous mammals. Two others were planned but either commissioned under another name or cancelled.
was a 24-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...

 launched in 1778. The French Concorde

French frigate Concorde (1793)

The Concorde was a Nymphe-class 40-gun frigate of the French Navy.On 27 May 1793, Concorde captured the 24-gun HMS Hyæna. She took part in the Expédition d'Irlande, and on 12 October 1798, in aftermath of the Battle of Tory Island....

 captured her in 1793 and she became the privateer

Privateer

A privateer is a private person or ship authorized by a government by letters of marque to attack foreign shipping during wartime. Privateering was a way of mobilizing armed ships and sailors without having to spend public money or commit naval officers...

 Hyene. In 1797 Indefatigable

HMS Indefatigable (1784)

HMS Indefatigable was one of the Ardent class 64-gun third-rate ships-of-the-line designed by Sir Thomas Slade in 1761 for the Royal Navy. She had a long career under several distinguished commanders, serving throughout the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars...

 recaptured her near Tenerife

Tenerife

Tenerife is the largest and most populous island of the seven Canary Islands, it is also the most populated island of Spain, with a land area of 2,034.38 km² and 906,854 inhabitants, 43% of the total population of the Canary Islands. About five million tourists visit Tenerife each year, the...

. Recommissioned under her old name, Hyaena was sold in 1802. was a 28-gun sixth rate, formerly the civilian Hope. She was purchased in 1804 and became a storeship in 1813. She was sold in 1822.

• HMS Hyaena was to have been a 10-gun Cherokee-class
  Cherokee class brig-sloop
  The Cherokee class was a 10-gun class of brig-sloops of the Royal Navy. Brig-sloops are sloops-of-war with two masts rather than the three masts of ship-sloops...
  
   brig-sloop. She was laid down in 1825, but renamed and launched in 1826 as .
• HMS Hyaena was a 10-gun Cherokee-class brig-sloop under construction as HMS Calypso, but renamed in 1826. She was cancelled in 1831. was a wooden screw Albacore-class gunboat
  Gunboat
  A gunboat is a naval watercraft designed for the express purpose of carrying one or more guns to bombard coastal targets, as opposed to those military craft designed for naval warfare, or for ferrying troops or supplies.-History:...
  
   launched in 1856 and sold in 1870 as a salvage vessel. was an iron screw Ant-class
  Ant class gunboat
  The Ant-class gunboat was a class of twenty-four Royal Navy flat-iron gunboats mounting a single 10-inch gun, built between 1870 and 1880. They carried no masts or sails, being among the first Royal Navy vessels not to do so. The last four vessels were ordered separately and are sometimes known as...
  
  gunboat launched in 1873 and sold in 1906.