HMS Sheldrake

HMS Sheldrake may refer to one of several Royal Navy ships named after the Sheldrake duck:

• HMS Sheldrake (1806) was a Seagull-class brig-sloop launched in 1806 and sold in 1817.
• HMS Sheldrake (1825) was a Cherokee-class brig-sloop launched in 1825 that became a Post Office Packet Service packet, sailing out of Falmouth, Cornwall. She was sold in 1855.
• was a gunboat of the Albacore class built by W & H Pitcher in Northfleet and launched in 1855 and sold in 1865 in Montevideo. In 1861 she was deployed in the south atlantic during the Christie crisis with Brazil.
• was a Sharpshooter-class torpedo gunboat launched in 1889 and sold for breaking in 1907.
• was an Acorn-class destroyer launched in 1911 and sold for breaking up in 1921.
• was a Kingfisher-class sloop launched in 1937 and sold in 1946.

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