HMS Stag

Six ships of the Royal Navy and one naval base have borne the name HMS Stag after the Stag, the term for a mature male deer:

• HMS Stag was a 32-gun Niger class frigate launched on 4 September 1758. She was reduced to a 28-gun sixth-rate in 1777, but restored as a 32-gun fifth-rate in 1779. She was broken up in July 1783 at Deptford.
• HMS Stag was a 32 gun fifth rate launched in 1794 and wrecked in 1800 at Vigo Bay.
• HMS Stag was a 36 gun fifth rate launched in 1812 and broken up in 1821.
• HMS Stag was a 46 gun fifth rate launched in 1830, breaking up completed in 1866.
• HMS Stag was a coastguard yawl launched in 1861 and sold in 1891.
• HMS Stag was the sole member of the Stag class of D class destroyer, was launched in 1899 by John I. Thornycroft & Company. She survived World War I to be sold in 1921.
• HMS Stag was the name used for the base for British naval personnel in Egypt. First established at Port Said, it commissioned 8 January 1940. There were outposts at Adabya, Kabrit, Ismailia, Generiffa, Port Tewfik. It was paid off in May 1949.

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.