HMS Dispatch
Introduction Seventeen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name '''HMS ''Dispatch''''', or the variant '''HMS ''Despatch''''':*  was a 2-gun brigantine launched in 1691 and sold in 1712. *  was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1745 and sold in 1763. *  was a 14-gun sloop that foundered in a hurricane in 1772.She may have been salved and sold in 1773. *  was an 8-gun sloop captured in 1776 by the American privateer . * HMS ''Despatch'' was a transport purchased in 1774 as the 6-gun armed ship . She was renamed HMS ''Despatch'' in 1777 and sold in 1783. *  was a 16-gun sloop launched in 1777.She capsized in 1778. *  was an 8-gun schooner purchased in 1780 and sold in 1795. * HMS ''Dispatch'' was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1779 as . She was renamed HMS ''Navy Transport'' in 1782, HMS ''Dispatch'' in 1783 and was sold in 1798. *  was a sloop captured from the French in 1790 and sold in 1801. *  was a 16-gun  launched in 1795 and never commissioned but instead sold to the Russian Navy that year, and transferred in 1796.She was wrecked in 1805. *  was a 6-gun tender in service between 1797 and 1801. * HMS ''Dispatch'' (1799) was an 18-gun sloop, previously the French privateer ''Indefatigable''. She was captured in 1799 and sold in 1801. *  was an 18-gun  launched in 1804 and broken up in 1811. *  was an 18-gun ''Cruizer''-class brig-sloop launched in 1812 and sold in 1836.She burnt at sea on 11 March 1839. *  was a 6-gun brig-storeship transferred from the Transport Office c. 1816.She was hulked in 1820, used as a sheer hulk from 1826 and wrecked in 1846.She was ordered to be broken up, but remained listed until 1865. *  was a 12-gun brig launched in 1851.She became Watch Vessel No. 24 under the name HMS ''Cadmus'' in 1863, and was sold in 1901. *  was a  light cruiser launched in 1919 and sold in 1946.
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