Seven ships of the Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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 have been named HMS Nymphe, HMS Nymph or HMS Nymphen after the Nymph

Nymph

A nymph in Greek mythology is a female minor nature deity typically associated with a particular location or landform. Different from gods, nymphs are generally regarded as divine spirits who animate nature, and are usually depicted as beautiful, young nubile maidens who love to dance and sing;...

s of Greek Mythology

Greek mythology

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. Another was planned but never completed:
was a 14-gun sloop

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...

 launched in 1778 and burnt by accident in 1783. was a 36-gun fifth rate captured from the French in 1780 and wrecked in 1810. was a 36-gun fifth rate captured from the Danish in 1807. She was to have been renamed HMS Determinee, but this did not happen and she was sold in 1816. was a 38-gun fifth rate, built as HMS Neriede but renamed in 1811 and launched in 1812. She was placed on harbour service from 1836, renamed HMS Handy in 1871 and was broken up in 1875. was a wooden screw sloop

Screw sloop

A screw sloop is a propeller-driven sloop-of-war. In the 19th century, during the introduction of the steam engine, ships driven by propellers were differentiated from those driven by paddle-wheels by referring to the ship's screws...

 launched in 1866 and sold in 1884. was a composite screw sloop launched in 1888. She became a base ship and was renamed HMS Wildfire in 1906, and HMS Gannet in 1916 and finally HMS Pembroke in 1917. She was sold in 1920. was an Acorn class

Acorn class destroyer

The Acorn class was a class of twenty destroyers of the Royal Navy all built under the 1909-1910 Programme, and completed between 1910 and 1911...

 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 1911 and sold in 1921.

• HMS Nymphe was to have been a modified Black Swan class
  Black Swan class sloop
  The Black Swan class and Modified Black Swan class were two classes of sloop of the Royal Navy and Royal Indian Navy. Thirteen Black Swans were launched between 1939 and 1943, including four for the Royal Indian Navy; twenty-four Modified Black Swans were launched between 1942 and 1945, including...
  
  sloop laid down in 1945 but cancelled later that year.