HMS Pigeon
Introduction Several vessels of the Royal Navy have borne the name '''HMS ''Pigeon'''''. *  was the ex-mercantile ''Fanny'', purchased in May 1805 and fitted and armed as a dispatch cutter. She was wrecked three quarters of a mile from the town of Rysum in East Friesland in November 1805 through the inexperience of her pilot. *  was a  launched in 1806 and wrecked off Margate in 1809. *''Pigeon'': See . *  was the mercantile wood paddle tender ''Brothers'' purchased at Constantinople in 1854 and sold there in 1856. *  was a wood screw  built in 1860 and broken up in 1876. *  was a composite screw gunboat built in 1888 and sold in 1906. *  was an  built in 1916 and sold in 1921.
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