HMS Ardent

Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Eight ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Ardent, whilst another two were planned:

• Template:HMS was a 64-gun third rate launched in 1764. She was captured by the French in 1779, but was recaptured in 1782 and renamed HMS Tiger. She was sold in 1784.
• Template:HMS was a 64-gun third rate launched in 1782. She caught fire and exploded near Corsica in 1794.
• Template:HMS was a 64-gun third rate launched in 1796. She was used for harbour service from 1812 and was broken up in 1824.
• Template:HMS was a wooden paddle sloop launched in 1841 and scrapped in 1865.
• HMS Ardent was to have been a wooden screw sloop, but she was renamed Template:HMS before her launch in 1843.
• Template:HMS was an Template:Sclass torpedo boat destroyer launched in 1894 and broken up in 1911.
• Template:HMS was an Template:Sclass destroyer launched in 1913 and sunk at the battle of Jutland in 1916.
• Template:HMS was an Template:Sclass2 destroyer launched in 1929 and sunk in 1940.
• HMS Ardent (P437) was to have been an Template:Sclass, but she was cancelled in 1945.
• Template:HMS was a Type 21 frigate launched in 1975 and sunk in 1982 during the Falklands War.

Battle honours

• Camperdown 1791
• Copenhagen 1801
• Crimea 1854–55
• Jutland 1916
• Atlantic 1939–40
• Norway 1940
• Scharnhorst 1940
• Falklands 1982

References

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| last1 = Colledge
| first1 = J. J. 
| author-link1= J. J. Colledge
| last2 = Warlow
| first2 = Ben
| date = 2006
| orig-date = 1969
| title = Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of All Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy from the 15th Century to the Present
| edition = Rev.
| location = London
| publisher = Chatham Publishing
| isbn = 978-1-86176-281-8
| OCLC = 67375475

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