HMS Fly

Eighteen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Fly:

HMS Fly (1648) was a six-gun sloop, built in 1648 and last listed in 1652.
HMS Fly (1672) was a six-gun dogger captured from the Dutch in 1672 and wrecked in 1673.
HMS Fly (1694) was a six-gun advice boat built in 1694 and wrecked in 1695.
HMS Fly (1696) was a four-gun ketch built in 1696 and sold in 1712.
HMS Fly (1732) was a 12-gun sloop launched in 1732 and broken up in 1750.
HMS Fly (1752) was an eight-gun sloop launched in 1752 and sold in 1772.
HMS Fly (1763) was a cutter purchased in 1763 and sold in 1771.
HMS Fly (1776) was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1776 and foundered off the Newfoundland coast in 1801 or 1802.^[1]^[2]
HMS Fly (1778) was a 14-gun cutter purchased in 1778 and captured by the French in 1781.
HMS Fly (1779) was a 16-gun sloop launched in 1779 and in service until 1782.
HMS Fly (1793) was an 18-gun sloop launched in 1793 and wrecked on 2 March 1805 on the Carysfort Reef in the Gulf of Florida; her crew were saved.^[3]
HMS Fly (1805) was a 16-gun brig-sloop launched in 1805. Due to the pilot's error of judgment she wrecked on 2 February 1812 on the Knobber Reef, a narrow spit of sand and large boulders that extends 4.4 miles from the eastern end of Anholt Island. Boats from the Baltic Fleet rescued her crew.^[4]
HMS Fly (1813) was a Cruizer-class brig-sloop launched in 1813 and sold in 1828.
HMS Fly (1831) was an 18-gun sloop launched in 1831. She was converted into a coal hulk in 1855, after which she was renamed C2 and then C70. She was broken up in 1903.
HMS Fly (1856) was a wooden Albacore-class screw gunboat launched in 1856 and broken up in 1862.
HMS Fly (1867) was a Beacon-class gunvessel launched in 1867 and sold in 1887.
HMS Fly (J306) was an Algerine-class minesweeper launched in 1942. She was sold to Iran in 1949, being renamed Palang. She was paid off in 1966 and stricken from the navy list in 1972. She sank, and was then broken up.

References

^ Grocott (1997), pp. 105-6.
^ Colledge & Warlow (2006), p.129.
^ Grocott (1997), p.195.
^ Grocott (1997), p.339.

Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475.
Grocott, Terence (1997), Shipwrecks of the revolutionary and Napoleonic eras, Chatham, ISBN 1-86176-030-2

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