Nine ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Linnet after the linnet, a bird of the finch family: was a 14-gun brig, originally named Speedwell, which the French ship Gloire captured off Madeira in 1813. She became the American privateer Bunkers Hill. Pomone and recaptured her on 4 March 1814 but she was not taken back into Royal Navy service. was a 16-gun brig that operated on the Canadian Lakes. was a survey cutter launched in 1817 and sold in 1833 for breaking up. was an 8-gun brig launched in 1835 and sold in 1866. was a steam powered gunboat launched in 1860 and broken up in 1872. was a composite screw gunvessel launched in 1880. After she was sold in 1904, the ship was converted to a salvage vessel. HMS Linnet was a tender originally named Napier of Magdala. She was renamed Hasty in 1913 and sold in 1920. was a destroyer, originally planned as HMS Havock. She was launched in 1913 and sold in 1921. was a launched in 1938 and broken up in 1964. See also Linnet (disambiguation) References Royal Navy ship names