HMS Weazel

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Eleven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Weazel, an archaic spelling of weasel, while another was planned:

  • HMS Weazel was a 10-gun sloop launched in 1704 and sold in 1712.
  • HMS Weazel was an 8-gun sloop launched in 1721 and sold in 1732.
  • HMS Weazel was a 16-gun sloop purchased on the stocks and launched in 1745. She was captured by the French ship Boudeuse in 1779.
  • HMS Weazel was a 14-gun brig-sloop launched in 1783 and wrecked in 1799.
  • HMS Weazel was a 16-gun brig-sloop launched in 1799 and purchased that year. She was wrecked in 1803.
  • HMS Weazel was an 18-gun Cruizer class brig-sloop launched in 1805 and sold in 1815.
  • HMS Weazel was a 10-gun schooner purchased in 1808 and on the navy lists until 1811.
  • HMS Weazel was a 10-gun Cherokee class brig-sloop launched in 1822 and sold in 1844.
  • HMS Weazel was a Dapper class wood screw gunboat launched in 1855 and sold in 1869.
  • HMS Weazel was an Ant class iron screw gunboat launched in 1873. She became an oil fuel lighter in 1904 and was renamed C 118.
  • HMS Weazel was a tender, previously the War Department vessel Sir W. Green. She was transferred to the Royal Navy in 1906 and was renamed HMS Stoat in 1918. She was sold in 1923.
  • HMS Weazel was to have been a W class destroyer. The order was cancelled in 1918.
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