HMS Nightingale
Ten vessels of the
Royal Navy
have been named
HMS
Nightingale
after the
common nightingale
:
English ship
Nightingale
(1626)
was a vessel captured in 1626 and listed in the navy until 1628.
English ship
Nightingale
(1651)
was a 30-gun ship launched in 1651 and wrecked on
Goodwin Sands
in 1672.
HMS
Nightingale
(1702)
was a 24-gun
Nightingale
group
frigate
launched in 1702 and captured by the French in 1707. She served in the
French Navy
as
Rossignol
before being recaptured by
HMS
Ludlow Castle
later in the year. She was renamed
Fox
and rebuilt to a longer design in 1727 before being
broken up
in 1737.
HMS
Nightingale
(1707)
was a 24-gun
Aldborough
group
frigate launched in 1707 and sold in 1716.
HMS
Nightingale
(1746)
was a 24-gun frigate purchased by the Royal Navy while being privately built in 1746. She was sunk as a
breakwater
at
Harwich
in 1773.
HMS
Nightingale
(1805)
was a 16-gun
Seagull
-class
brig sloop
launched in 1805 and sold in 1815.
HMS
Nightingale
(1825)
was a 6-gun
cutter
launched in 1825 and wrecked in 1829.
HMS
Nightingale
(1829)
was an 8-gun
packet boat
purchased in 1829 having previously sailed as
Marchioness of Salisbury
. She was sold in 1842.
HMS
Nightingale
(1855)
was an
Albacore
-class
gunboat
launched in 1855 and sold in 1867.
HMS
Nightingale
(1897)
was a river gunboat launched in 1897 and sold in 1919.