Ten ships of the
Royal Navy have been named HMS Beaver, after the animal, the
beaver:
HMS Beaver (1656), a ketch in the Royalist navy, captured by Parliamentary forces in 1656 and broken up two years later.
HMS Beaver (1757), 18, a sloop originally called Trudaine and operating as a French privateer, but captured in 1757 and renamed before being sold in 1761.
HMS Beaver (1837), a wooden paddle packet originally operating as a Post Office vessel but transferred to the Royal Navy in 1837. It became a dockyard lighter in 1845.
HMS Beaver (1855), an
Albacore-classgunboat launched in 1855 and broken up in 1864. This vessel was built hastily of unseasoned wood with the result that she was unsound and saw no service at all.[1]
HMS Beaver's Prize (or Beaver Prize), was the 24-gun Pennsylvania State privateer Oliver Cromwell, which
Beaver captured 12 June 1777. She was commissioned into the Royal Navy shortly thereafter. She was wrecked in 1780, with the loss of many of her crew, in the harbour at St Lucia in a storm.
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