HMS Lively

Sixteen ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Lively. Another was planned, but renamed before being launched:

HMS Lively (1689) was a 30-gun fifth rate captured from the French in 1689. She was re-captured by the French later that year.
HMS Lively (1709) was a 12-gun sixth rate purchased in 1709 and sold in 1712.
HMS Lively (1713) was a 20-gun sixth rate launched in 1713. She was broken up in 1738 and rebuilt as the next HMS Lively.
HMS Lively (1740) was a 20-gun sixth rate launched in 1740 and sold in 1750.
HMS Lively (1756) was a 20-gun sixth rate launched in 1756. She was captured by the French in 1778, but was recaptured in 1781, and was sold 1784.
HMS Lively (1779) was a 14-gun brig-sloop purchased on the stocks and launched in 1779. She was seized by Americans she had taken prisoner in 1782 and was handed over to the Spanish at Havana.
HMS Lively (1794) was a 32-gun fifth-rate frigate launched in 1794 and wrecked off Rota Point, near Cadiz in 1798.
HMS Lively (1794 fireship) was a fireship purchased in 1794 and sold in 1798.
HMS Lively (1797) was a 16-gun storeship, purchased on the stocks and launched in 1797. She was deleted from the navy lists in 1802.
HMS Lively (1804) was a 38-gun fifth-rate frigate launched in 1804 and wrecked off Malta in 1810.
HMS Lively was a cutter hired and then purchased in 1805. Her fate is unknown.
HMS Lively was to have been a 36-gun fifth-rate frigate. She was renamed HMS Scamander in 1812 and was launched in 1813.
HMS Lively (1813) was a 38-gun fifth-rate frigate launched in 1813. She was relegated to harbour service in 1831 and was sold in 1862.
HMS Lively (1856) was a wooden screw gunboat launched in 1856. She was wrecked in 1863 on the Dutch coast.
HMS Lively (1870) was a wooden paddle despatch vessel launched in 1870 and wrecked in 1883 near Stornoway.
HMS Lively (1901) was a B-class torpedo boat destroyer launched in 1900, acquired by the navy in 1901 and sold in 1920.
HMS Lively (G40) was an L-class destroyer launched in 1941 and sunk in 1942.

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