HMS Fawn

Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Fawn:

• HMS Fawn (1805), a 16-gun brig-corvette, originally the French ship Faune, that Goliath captured in the English Channel in 1805 and that disappears from the records in 1806.
• HMS Fawn (1807), an 18-gun sloop-of-war launched in 1807, sold in 1818; she then made seven whaling voyages from 1820 until she was broken up in 1844.
• HMS Fawn (1840), a 6-gun brigantine, originally the Portuguese slaver Caroline, captured by HMS Electra on 25 March 1839 near Rio de Janeiro.^[1] She was purchased there on 27 May 1840, converted in 1842 to a tank (water) vessel at the Cape of Good Hope Station, and sold in May 1847 to the Natal Colonial Government.^[2][3]
• HMS Fawn (1856), a 17-gun wood screw sloop-of-war launched in 1856, used as a survey ship from 1876 and sold in 1884
• HMS Fawn (1897) was a Fawn-class destroyer launched in 1897 and sold in 1919
• HMS Fawn (A325) was a Bulldog-class survey ship launched in 1968 and sold in 1991

Battle honours

Ships named Fawn have earned the following battle honours:^{[note 1]}

• Gabbard, 1653
• Martinique, 1809
• Guadeloupe, 1810
• Belgian Coast, 1914−18

Note

1. In the Royal Navy, and other Commonwealth navies that follow the traditions of the RN, battle honours awarded to a ship are inherited by subsequent ships to bear the same name, and are displayed on the ship's honours board.^[4]