Four ships of the
Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Mallard, after the species of duck, the
Mallard:
HMS Mallard (1801) was a 12-gun
gun-brig launched in 1801. The French captured her after she ran aground in 1804. The French Navy converted her to a gunboat in 1811, renamed her Favori in 1814, Mallard in 1815, and then Favori again later in 1815. She was struck at
Brest in 1827, but was a service craft there on 17 September 1831.
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