HMS Plover

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Eleven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Plover, after the species of bird, the Plover:

  • was a 26-gun ship, previously the Dutch Morgen Star. She was captured in 1652 and either sunk in action in 1653 or sold in 1657.
  • was an 18-gun sloop launched in 1796 and sold in 1819.
  • was a 10-gun Cherokee-class brig-sloop launched in 1821

that became a Post Office Packet Service packet, sailing out of Falmouth, Cornwall. She was sold in 1841.

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