HMS Lynx

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Ten Royal Navy ships have been named HMS Lynx after the wild cat:

• Lynx was a 10-gun sloop launched in 1761 and sold on 1777.
• Lynx was a 16-gun sloop launched in 1777. Converted to a hospital ship in 1780, the ship was sold on 1783.
• Lynx was a 16-gun sloop launched in 1794 and sold on 1813.
• Lynx was to have been an 18-gun Cruizer class brig-sloop. Originally ordered in 1812 as HMS Pandora she was renamed Lynx. However construction was cancelled in 1818.
• Lynx was a Cherokee class brig-sloop launched in 1833 and broken up in 1845.
• Lynx was a wooden screw gunvessel launched in 1854 and sold in 1862.
• Lynx was a composite screw gunvessel launched in 1868 and sold in 1888.
• Lynx was a Ferret class destroyer launched in 1894 and sold in 1912.
• Lynx was a Acasta class destroyer launched in 1913 and sunk by a mine in the Moray Firth in 1915.
• Lynx was a Type 41 (or Leopard)-class frigate launched in 1955, sold to Bangladesh in 1982 and renamed Abu Bakr.

[edit] References

• Colledge, J. J. and Warlow, Ben (2006). Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy, Rev. ed., London: Chatham. ISBN 9781861762818. OCLC 67375475.