HMS Redwing

Six ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Redwing, after the redwing. Another was renamed before being launched, and another was cancelled.

HMS Redwing (1806) was a Cruizer-class brig-sloop, built in Brightlingsea in 1806, and lost at sea in 1827.
HMS Redwing was to have been an 18-gun sloop. She was ordered in 1829 and cancelled in 1832.
was a wooden paddle packet, originally the GPO's Richmond. She was transferred to the Navy in 1837 and sold in 1849.
was a Dapper-class gunboat, built at Northfleet in 1855, and broken up in 1878.
was a composite screw gunboat built as HMS Espion but renamed in 1879 and launched in 1880. She was sold in 1905.
was a tender, previously the War Department's Sir Charles Pasley. She was transferred to the Navy in 1905 and was sold in 1931.
HMS Redwing was to have been an Admiralty M-class destroyer. She was renamed HMS Medora in 1915, and finally HMS Medway in 1916, and launched that year.
HMS Redwing (1933) was a tender launched in 1933, sold in 1957 and broken up in 1965.

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