HMS Renard

Ten ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Renard, or HMS Reynard, after the French for fox, and the anthropomorphic figure of Reynard:

• HMS Renard (1780) was an 18-gun sloop that HMS Brune captured from the French in July 1781. She became a hospital ship in Antigua in 1781–82, and was broken up in 1784.[1][Note 1]
• HMS Renard (1797) was an 18-gun sloop, previously a French privateer. The British captured her in 1797 and sold her in 1809.
• HMS Renard (1803) was a French naval 12-gun schooner that HMS Cameleon captured in 1803; The Admiralty later renamed her HMS Crafty. The Spanish captured Crafty in 1807.
• HMS Reynard (1808) was a 10-gun Cherokee-class brig-sloop launched in 1808 and sold for breaking up in 1818.
• HMS Reynard (1821) was a 10-gun Cherokee-class brig-sloop launched in 1821. She was renamed HMS Renard in 1828, reclassified as a mooring vessel in 1841, and was broken up in 1857.
• HMS Reynard (1848) was a unique wooden screw sloop launched in 1848 and wrecked in 1851.
• HMS Renard (1856) was a Vigilant-class gunvessel launched in 1856 and broken up in 1866.
• HMS Renard (1873) was a Beagle-class schooner launched in Sydney in 1873 and sold in 1883.
• HMS Renard (1892) was an Alarm-class torpedo gunboat launched in 1892 and sold in 1905.
• HMS Renard (1909) was a Beagle-class destroyer launched in 1909 and sold in 1920.

Footnotes

Notes

1. Colledge & Warlow have Brune capturing Renard in May 1780.[2]

Citations

1. Demerliac (1996), p.194, #1941.
2. Colledge & Warlow (2006), p.335.

References

• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
• Demerliac, Alain (1996) La Marine De Louis XVI: Nomenclature Des Navires Français De 1774 À 1792. (Nice: Éditions OMEGA). ISBN 2-906381-23-3

• Winfield, R.; Lyon, D. (2004). The Sail and Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815–1889. London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-032-6.