HMS Decoy explained

At least six vessels of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Decoy.

• , the name vessel for her three-vessel class of cutter; the French captured her in 1814
• , a broken up in 1869 at Haslar
• , a gunboat launched in 1871 and sold in 1885.
• , a torpedo boat destroyer launched in 1894 and sunk in a collision in 1904.
• , a D-class destroyer launched in 1932 and transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy in 1943 as, then broken up in 1946.
• Decoy, a destroyer ordered in 1945, the order being canceled January 1946
• , a destroyer launched in 1949 and sold to the Peruvian Navy in 1970 as, decommissioned in 2007. She was originally to have been named Dragon.