Kingfisher was a 4-gun
ketch purchased in 1684 and captured by the French in 1690.
HMS Kingfisher (1745) (or Kings Fisher) was a 14-gun sloop launched at Gosport. She was converted into an 8-gun
bomb vessel and served as such between 1758 and 1760. She was sold in 1763.
HMS Kingfisher (1845) was a 12-gun
brig launched in 1845. She was laid up in 1852, and was then on harbour service from 1875. She was sold in 1890.
HMS Kingfisher (1879) was an
Doterel-class sloop launched in 1879. She became a training ship and was renamed HMS Lark in 1892, and then HMS Cruizer in 1893. She was sold in 1919.
HMS Kingfisher was a 16-gun brig launched in 1850 as
HMS Martin. She was renamed HMS Kingfisher in 1890, when she became a training brig. She was sold in 1907.
HMS Kingfisher was to have been a
river gunboat. She was ordered in 1912, but was subsequently cancelled.
HMS Kingfisher (1954) was a
King Salvor-class salvage vessel previously HMS King Salvor renamed in 1954 and in service until 1960 when she was sold to the Argentine Navy.
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