HMS Linnet

Nine ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Linnet after the linnet, a bird of the finch family:

• HMS Linnet was a 14-gun brig, originally named Speedwell, which the French ship Gloire captured off Madeira in 1813. She became the American privateer Bunker's Hill. Pomone and Cydnus recaptured her on 4 March 1814 but she was not taken back into Royal Navy service.^[1]
• HMS Linnet, was a 16-gun brig that operated on the Canadian Lakes.
• HMS Linnet was a survey cutter launched in 1817 and sold in 1833 for breaking up.
• HMS Linnet was an 8-gun brig launched in 1835 and sold in 1866.
• HMS Linnet was a Britomart-class steam powered gunboat launched in 1860 and broken up in 1872.
• HMS Linnet was a composite screw gunvessel launched in 1880. After she was sold in 1904, the ship was converted to a salvage vessel.
• HMS Linnet was a tender originally named Napier of Magdala. She was renamed Hasty in 1913 and sold in 1920.
• HMS Linnet was a Laforey-class destroyer, originally planned as HMS Havock. She was launched in 1913 and sold in 1921.
• HMS Linnet was a Linnet-class minelayer launched in 1938 and broken up in 1964.

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.