HMS Lynx

Template:Use dmy dates Ten Royal Navy ships have been named HMS Lynx after the wild cat:

• Template:HMS was a 10-gun sloop launched in 1761 and sold in 1777.
• Template:HMS was a 16-gun sloop launched in 1777. Converted to a hospital ship in 1780, the ship was sold in 1783.
• Template:HMS was a 16-gun sloop launched in 1794 and sold in 1813.
• Lynx was to have been an 18-gun Template:Sclass. Originally ordered in 1812 as HMS Pandora she was renamed Lynx. However construction was canceled in 1818.
• Template:HMS was a Template:Sclass launched in 1833 and broken up in 1845.
• Template:HMS was an Template:Sclass wooden screw gunvessel launched in 1854 and sold in 1862.
• Template:HMS was a Template:Sclass launched in 1868 and sold in 1888.
• Template:HMS was a Template:Sclass launched in 1894 and sold in 1912.
• Template:HMS was an Template:Sclass launched in 1913 and sunk by a mine in the Moray Firth in 1915.
• Template:HMS was a Type 41 (or Leopard-class) frigate launched in 1955, sold to Bangladesh in 1982 and renamed Abu Bakr.
• Template:HMS was also a shore establishment at Dover commissioned in 1939 and paid off in 1946.

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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