HMS Foxhound

Six ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Foxhound. A seventh was planned but never completed:

• HMS Foxhound was an 18-gun Cruizer class brig-sloop launched in 1806. She foundered in 1809 in the Atlantic.
• HMS Foxhound was a 16-gun sloop, originally the French Basque. She was captured in 1809 and sold in 1816.
• HMS Foxhound was to have been a 10-gun Cherokee class brig-sloop. She was ordered in 1826 but cancelled in 1831.
• HMS Foxhound was a screw gunboat launched in 1856 and broken up in 1866.
• HMS Foxhound was a 4-gun screw gunboat launched in 1877. She was transferred to the Coastguard in 1886, became a coal yug and was renamed YC 20 in 1897, was sold in 1920 and finally broken up in 1975.
• HMS Foxhound was a Beagle-class destroyer launched in 1909 and sold in 1921.
• HMS Foxhound was an F-class destroyer launched in 1934, transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy in 1944 and renamed HMCS Qu'appelle, and sold in 1948.

References

• 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 Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475. 

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