Fourteen ships and a shore establishment of the Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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 have borne the name HMS Raven, after birds of the genus Corvus, particularly the Common Raven

Common Raven

The Common Raven , also known as the Northern Raven, is a large, all-black passerine bird. Found across the northern hemisphere, it is the most widely distributed of all corvids...

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Ships was a 36-gun ship captured in 1652, and captured by the Dutch in 1654. was a 6-gun vessel, possibly a French ship, previously named St Cornelius. She was captured in 1656 and listed until 1659. 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 1745 and sold in 1763.

• HMS Raven was a sloop, previously the 8-gun fireship  launched in 1771. She was renamed Raven later that year and was sold in 1780.
• HMS Raven was an 18-gun sloop, launched in 1777 as . She was renamed Raven in 1782, but was captured later that year by the French. was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1796 and wrecked in 1798. was a 18-gun brig-sloop, previously the French Aréthuse. She was captured in 1799 and wrecked in 1804. 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 1804 and wrecked in 1805. was a 16-gun brig-sloop launched in 1805 and sold in 1816. was a 4-gun survey cutter launched in 1829. She became a quarantine ship in 1848, was transferred to the coastguard in 1850 and was sold in 1859. was a mortar vessel
  Bomb vessel
  A bomb vessel, bomb ship, bomb ketch, or simply bomb was a type of wooden sailing naval ship. Its primary armament was not cannon —although bomb vessels carried a few cannon for self-defence—but rather mortars mounted forward near the bow and elevated to a high angle, and projecting their fire in a...
  
   launched in 1855, renamed MV 13 later that year and was ordered to be sold in 1856. was an Albacore-class wooden screw 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 1875. was a composite screw gunboat launched in 1882. She became a diving tender in 1904 and was sold in 1925. was a seaplane carrier, previously a seized German merchant, in service between 1915 and 1917.

Shore establishment was the Royal Naval Air Station at Eastleigh

Eastleigh

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, Southampton

Southampton

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in commission between 1939 and 1947.