HMS Coquette explained

Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Coquette. A seventh was ordered but never completed:

• was a 28-gun sixth rate captured from the French in 1783 and in service in 1785.
• was a 20-gun sixth rate launched in 1807 and sold in 1817. She became a whaler and was lost in 1835.
• HMS Coquette was to have been an 18-gun corvette. She was ordered in 1835 and cancelled in 1851.
• was a wooden screw gunvessel launched in 1855 and broken up in 1868.
• was an composite screw gunboat launched in 1871 and sold in 1889.
• was a destroyer launched in 1897 and sunk by a mine from a German submarine in 1916 (22 casualties).
• was an launched in 1943 and scrapped in 1958.