HMS Griffin

Template:Use dmy dates Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Griffin, after the legendary creature, the Griffin:

• Template:HMS was a 12-gun Royalist ship, captured by the Parliamentarians in 1655. She foundered in 1664.
• Template:HMS was an 8-gun fireship launched in 1690, rebuilt in 1702 and sold in 1737.
• Template:HMS was a 44-gun fifth rate, previously the French Griffon. She was captured in 1712 and restored to France in 1713.
• Template:HMS was a 28-gun sixth rate launched in 1758 and wrecked in 1761.
• Template:HMS was a 12-gun cutter purchased in 1778 and sold in 1786. Under the command of Lieutenant Inglis, she captured a French privateer brig of sixteen 6-pounder guns on about 21 May 1779.<ref>Template:London Gazette</ref>
• Template:HMS was a G-class destroyer launched in 1935. She was transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy in 1943 and renamed Template:HMCS, and was sold in 1946.

See also

• Template:HMS
• Hired armed cutter Template:Ship

References

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|_exclude=case, year, _debug
| 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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