HMS Hound

Fifteen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name Hound:

• English ship Hound (1652) was a 36-gun ship captured in 1652, a hulk in 1656 and broken up in 1660.
• HMS Hound (1656) was an 18-gun ship captured in 1656 and expended as a fire ship in 1666.
• HMS Hound (1673) was a 4-gun sloop built in 1673 and sold in 1686.
• HMS Hound (1690) was an 8-gun fire ship launched in 1690 and expended in 1692.
• HMS Hound (1700) was a 4-gun sloop launched in 1700 and broken up in 1714.
• HMS Hound (1732) was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1732 and broken up in 1745.
• HMS Hound (1745) was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1745 and sold in 1773.
• HMS Hound (1776) was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1776. She was in French hands between 1780 and 1782, when she was renamed Levrette. She was recaptured and broken up in 1784.
• HMS Hound (1790) was a 16-gun sloop launched in 1790. In 1794 the French frigates Seine and Galatee captured her in the Atlantic.^[1] She became the French Navy corvette Levrette (or Levrette No.2), and was last listed in 1796.
• HMS Hound (1796) was a 16-gun brig-sloop launched in 1796 and wrecked in 1800 off Shetland, together with all her crew of 120 men and 45 Dutch prisoners of war.^[2]
• HMS Hound (1801) was a 16-gun sloop previously named Monarch. She was purchased in 1801, converted to a bomb vessel in 1808 and broken up in 1812.
• HMS Hound was to have been an 8-gun brig, ordered in 1839 from Chatham Dockyard. The order was cancelled in 1844 and transferred to Deptford Dockyard where she was completed as the next HMS Hound.
• HMS Hound (1846) was an 8-gun brig launched in 1846, used as a breakwater from 1872 and sold in 1887.
• HMS Hound was to have been an Albacore-class gunboat, but was renamed HMS Mastiff in 1855, prior to launching.
• HMS Hound (J307) was an Algerine-class minesweeper launched in 1942 and broken up in 1962.

Citations

1. Grocott (1997), p.8.
2. Grocott (1896), p.99.

References

• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
• Grocott, Terence (1997) Shipwrecks of the revolutionary & Napoleonic eras (Chatham). ISBN 1-86176-030-2