HMS Scout

Twelve ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Scout:

HMS Scout was a 10-gun bark launched in 1577 and condemned in 1603.
HMS Scout was a 6-gun sloop launched in 1648 and captured in 1649 by the Royalists.
HMS Scout was a 6-gun advice boat launched in 1694 and sold in 1703.
HMS Scout was a 16-gun brig-sloop launched in 1780 after having been purchased on the stocks. The French frigates Alceste and Vestale captured her on 4 August 1794 off Cape Bon (or Bona) and she was later wrecked.^[1]
HMS Scout was an 18-gun sloop, previously the French corvette Vénus, captured on 22 October 1800 and wrecked on 25 March 1801 off the Isle of Wight with no loss of life.^[2]
HMS Scout was an 18-gun sloop, previously the French privateer Premier Consul. HMS Dryad captured her on 5 March 1801; she foundered in 1801 or 1802 off Newfoundland with the loss of all hands.^[3] Her captain was Henry Duncan, who had just lost his previous sloop Scout.
HMS Scout was an 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop launched in 1804 and sold in 1827.
HMS Scout was an 18-gun sloop launched in 1832 and broken up in 1852.
HMS Scout was a wooden screw corvette launched in 1856 and broken up in 1877.
HMS Scout was a coastguard cutter built in 1861 and sold in 1870.
HMS Scout was a torpedo cruiser launched in 1885 and sold in 1904.
HMS Scout was an S-class destroyer launched in 1918 and broken up in 1946.

References

^ Gossett (1986), p. 6.
^ Gossett (1986), p 32.
^ Gossett (1986), p. 36.

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.
Gossett, William Patrick (1986). The lost ships of the Royal Navy, 1793-1900. Mansell. ISBN 0-7201-1816-6.

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