HMS Beaver

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 (1761), 14, a sloop launched in 1761 and sold in 1783.
• HMS Beaver (1795), 14, a sloop launched in 1795 and sold in 1808.
• HMS Beaver (1809), 10, a Cherokee-class sloop launched in 1809 and sold in 1829
• 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-class gunboat launched in 1855 and broken up in 1864.
• HMS Beaver (1905), a 125 ton tender transferred from the War Department to the Royal Navy in 1905 and sold in 1911.
• HMS Beaver (1911), an Acheron-class destroyer launched in 1911 and sold in 1921.
• HMS Beaver (F93), a Type 22, or Broadsword-class frigate launched in 1982 and scrapped in 2001.

See also

• HMS Beaver's Prize (or Beaver Prize), was the 24-gun Pennsylvania State privateer Oliver Cromwell, which Beaver captured in 1777. She was commissioned into the Royal Navy shortly thereafter. She was wrecked in 1780.
• HMCS Beaver
• USS Beaver (AS-5)

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. OCLC 67375475.