• HMS Sparrow was a pink
  Pink (ship)
  A pink is one of two different types of ship.The first was a small, flat-bottomed ship with a narrow stern; the name derived from the Italian word pinco. It was used primarily in the Mediterranean Sea as a cargo ship....
  
   captured in 1653 and sold in 1659.
• HMS Sparrow was a 12-gun cutter purchased from civilian service in 1796 when she had been named Rattler. She was broken up in 1805.
• HMS Sparrow was a 16-gun brig-sloop launched in 1805 and sold in 1816.
• HMS Sparrow was a 10-gun cutter launched in 1828. She was used as a survey ketch
  Ketch
  A ketch is a sailing craft with two masts: a main mast, and a shorter mizzen mast abaft of the main mast, but forward of the rudder post. Both masts are rigged mainly fore-and-aft. From one to three jibs may be carried forward of the main mast when going to windward...
  
   from 1844 and was broken up in 1860.
• HMS Sparrow was a wood screw Philomel class
  Philomel class gunvessel
  The Philomel-class gunvessel was a class of wooden-hulled screw-driven second-class gunvessels built for the Royal Navy between 1859 and 1867, of which 26 were ordered but only 20 completed. They had a mixed history, with some serving for as little as 5 years, and others surviving into the 1880s...
  
   gunvessel
  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 1860 and broken up in 1868.
• HMS Sparrow was a composite screw gunboat launched in 1889. She was transferred to the New Zealand
  New Zealand
  New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
  
   government in 1906 as the training ship NZS Amokura
  NZS Amokura
  HMS Sparrow was a Redbreast-class gunboat launched in 1889, the sixth Royal Navy ship to bear the name. She became the New Zealand training ship NZS Amokura in 1906 and was sold in 1922.-Design:...
  
  . She was sold as a coal hulk in 1922 and was broken up in 1958.
• HMS Sparrow was a 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...
  
   purchased from civilian service in 1909 when she had been named Josephine and refitted as a minesweeper
  Minesweeper (ship)
  A minesweeper is a small naval warship designed to counter the threat posed by naval mines. Minesweepers generally detect then neutralize mines in advance of other naval operations.-History:...
  
  . She was sold back into civilian service in 1920 and broken up in 1939.
• HMS Sparrow was 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
  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 1946 and scrapped in 1958.

See also

• Ships named HMS Sparrowhawk
  HMS Sparrowhawk
  Six ships and a naval air station of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Sparrowhawk after the bird of prey, the Eurasian Sparrowhawk:*HMS Sparrowhawk was an 18-gun Cruizer class brig-sloop launched in 1807 and sold in 1841....