HMS Inconstant

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Template:Use dmy dates Six ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Inconstant, whilst another was planned:

  • Template:HMS was a 36-gun fifth rate, previously the French ship Template:Ship. She was captured in 1778 and renamed HMS Convert in 1783. She was broken up in 1791.
  • Template:HMS was a 36-gun fifth rate launched in 1783 and broken up in 1817.
  • HMS Inconstant was planned as a 46-gun fifth-rate. She was ordered in 1825, but was cancelled in 1832.
  • Template:HMS was a 36-gun fifth-rate launched in 1836 and sold in 1862.
  • Template:HMS was an iron-hulled screw frigate launched in 1868. She was used for harbour service from 1898, was renamed HMS Impregnable II in 1906, merged with Template:HMS in 1920, renamed HMS Defiance IV in 1922, HMS Defiance II in 1930 and was finally sold in 1956.
  • Template:HMS was an Template:Sclass light cruiser launched in 1914 and sold in 1922.
  • Template:HMS was a destroyer ordered by Turkey in 1939 but requisitioned while building for the Royal Navy; she was nominally classed with the Template:Sclass2 destroyers, launched in 1941 and returned to Turkey in 1946. The Turks sold her in 1960.

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