HMS Pigeon
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Several vessels of the Royal Navy
have born the name HMS Pigeon.
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 born the name HMS Pigeon.
- HMS Pigeon (1805)HMS Pigeon (1805)The Admiralty purchased HMS Pigeon on 28 May 1805 for use as a despatch cutter. She was wrecked, though without loss of life, in November.-Service:...
was the ex-mercantile Fanny, purchased in May 1805 and fitted and armed (with 4 x 12-pounder carronadeCarronadeThe carronade was a short smoothbore, cast iron cannon, developed for the Royal Navy by the Carron Company, an ironworks in Falkirk, Scotland, UK. It was used from the 1770s to the 1850s. Its main function was to serve as a powerful, short-range anti-ship and anti-crew weapon...
s) as a dispatch cutter. She was wrecked three quarters of a mile from the town of RysumRysumRysum is a village located 15 kilometers west of Emden in the region of East Frisia, Germany. It is home to the Rysum organ, one of the earliest pipe organs in playable condition.-External links:* *...
in East Friesland in November 1805 through the inexperience of her pilot. - HMS Pigeon (1806)HMS Pigeon (1806)HMS Pigeon was a Royal Navy Cuckoo-class schooner of four12-pounder carronades and a crew of 20. Custance & Stone built and launched her at Great Yarmouth in 1806...
was a Cuckoo class schoonerCuckoo class schoonerThe Cuckoo class was a class of twelve 4-gun schooners of the Royal Navy, built by contract in English shipyards during the Napoleonic War. They followed the design of the Bermuda-designed and built Ballahoo-class schooners, and more particularly, that of Haddock. The Admiralty ordered all twelve...
launched in 1806 and wrecked off Margate in 1809. - Pigeon: See HMS Variable (1827).
- HMS Pigeon (1854) was the mercantile wood paddle tender Brothers purchased at ConstantinopleConstantinopleConstantinople was the capital of the Roman, Eastern Roman, Byzantine, Latin, and Ottoman Empires. Throughout most of the Middle Ages, Constantinople was Europe's largest and wealthiest city.-Names:...
in 1854 and sold there in 1856. - HMS Pigeon (1860) was a wood screw Britomart class gunboat built in 1860 and broken up in 1876.
- HMS Pigeon (1888) was a composite screw gunboat built in 1888 and sold in 1906.
- HMS Pigeon (1916) was an M-class destroyer built in 1916 and sold in 1921.