Thirty-nine vessels of the
Royal Navy and its predecessors have borne the name Swallow,[Note 1] as has one dockyard craft, one naval vessel of the British
East India Company, and at least two revenue cutters,[1] all after the bird, the
Swallow:
HMS Swallow (1779) was a 14-gun brig-rigged sloop launched in 1779 and driven ashore in 1781.
HMS Swallow (1781) was a 16-gun brig-rigged sloop, previously a
cutter purchased on the stocks and launched in 1781. She was sold in 1795. She became a
West Indiaman and a hired armed vessel for the British government. She captured some prizes and was last listed in 1799.
HMS Swallow (1824) was a 10-gun brig-sloop, formerly the packet Marquis of Salisbury. She was purchased in 1824 and sold in 1836.
HMS Swallow (1831) was a wooden paddle packet, previously the
General Post Office vessel Ferret. She was launched in 1831, transferred to the Royal Navy in 1837 and was broken up in 1848.
Swallow of 1770 was a 14-gun ketch launched in 1770 at Bombay, and lost in 1776.[2]
See also
Swallow (Royal Navy tender): at least two vessels named Swallow have served the Royal Navy as
ship's tenders, one from 1793 to 1795, and a second from 1811 to 1825.
^In accordance with
Wikipedia naming conventions, this index does not use the prefix HMS for ships before 1660. The term "His Majesty's Ship" was introduced around 1660 and was routinely abbreviated HMS from about 1780 onwards.
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