HMS Eaglet explained

Five ships and a training establishment of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Eaglet:

• was an 8-gun ketch built in 1655 and sold in 1674.
• was a 10-gun ketch launched in 1691 and captured in 1693 by the French off the Isle of Arran.
• was a paddle vessel, hired between 1855 and 1857.
• was launched in 1804 as Eagle and renamed whilst a training ship in 1918. She was destroyed by fire in 1926 and the wreck was sold in 1927.
• was a sloop launched as Sir Bevis in 1918, renamed Irwell in 1923 and Eaglet in 1926. She was broken up in 1971.
• was founded in 1904 and moved onshore after the scrapping of the last named ship in 1971.

See also

• - for similarly named ships of the Royal Navy.