HMS Peacock

Seven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Peacock:

• HMS Peacock was a ship captured in 1651 and sold in 1658.
• HMS Peacock was an 18-gun Cruizer class brig-sloop launched in 1806 and sunk by USS Hornet in 1813.
• HMS Peacock was an 18-gun sloop, previously the USS Wasp. She was captured in 1812, renamed Loup Cervier, renamed Peacock in 1813, and foundered in 1814.
• HMS Peacock was a wooden screw Albacore-class gunboat launched in 1856 and broken up in 1869.
• HMS Peacock was a composite screw gunboat launched in 1888 and sold in 1906.
• HMS Peacock was a Black Swan-class sloop launched in 1943 and scrapped in 1958.
• HMS Peacock was a Peacock-class patrol vessel launched in 1982 and sold to the Philippine Navy in 1997 and re-designated the Jacinto class corvette BRP Emilio Jacinto.

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. OCLC 67375475.