HMS ''Garland''

Several ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Garland. The name dates back to 1242, being the oldest confirmed ship name in the Royal Navy.

• English ship Garland (1590) (or Guardland), a 38/48-gun galleon, built in 1590 and sunk in 1618.
• Topsham ship Garland, containing possessions of Charles I of England, wrecked on Godrevy Island in Cornwall on the day Charles was executed 30 January 1649.
• English ship Garland (1620), a middling ship launched in 1620, and captured by the Dutch in 1652.
• HMS Garland (1654), a 30-gun ship launched in 1654 and originally called HMS Grantham, renamed Garland in 1660, became a fireship in 1688, upgraded to a fifth rate frigate in 1689 and finally sold in 1698.
• HMS Garland (1703), a 44-gun fifth-rate frigate launched in 1703, and wrecked in 1709.
• HMS Garland (1712), a 32-gun fifth-rate frigate, originally named HMS Scarborough, launched in 1696. Captured by the French in 1710 off the coast of Guinea, recaptured in 1712 and renamed Garland and used as a fireship; sold in 1744.
• HMS Garland (1748), a 24-gun sixth-rate post ship launched in 1748, hulked in 1768, and sold in 1783.
• HMS Garland (1762), originally a French 20-gun frigate called Guirlande, captured in 1762, and sold in 1783.
• HMS Garland, a 28-gun sixth-rate frigate launched in 1779 as Sibyl, renamed Garland in 1795, and wrecked in 1798 off Madagascar.
• HMS Garland (1798), a 6-gun schooner purchased in 1798 and sold in March 1803.
• HMS Garland (1800), originally a French 22-gun privateer called Mars that HMS Amethyst captured in 1800 and that was wrecked in 1803 in the West Indies.
• HMS Garland (1807), a 22-gun Laurel-class sixth-rate post ship launched in 1807 and sold in 1817.
• HMS Garland (1847), a wooden paddle packet launched in 1847, and sold in 1855.
• HMS Garland (1856), a Cheerful-class screw gunboat launched in 1856, and broken up in 1864.
• HMS Garland (1913), an Acasta-class destroyer launched in 1913 that fought at the Battle of Jutland. Sold in 1921.
• HMS Garland (H37), a G-class destroyer launched in 1935. Served with the Polish Navy from 1940 to 1946. Sold to the Dutch navy in 1947 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.