HMS Forester explained

Ten ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Forester:

• was a 22-gun ship launched in 1657 and blown up in 1672.
• was a 7-gun hoy launched in 1693 and wrecked in 1752.
• was a 4-gun hoy launched in 1748 and transferred to the coastguard as a hulk in 1828.
• was a 3-gun gunvessel, formerly a Thames sailing barge, purchased in 1794 and sold on 29 December 1801 for £210.^[1]
• was an 18-gun launched in 1806. She was used for harbour service from 1816 and was sold in 1819.
• HMS Forester was to have been a 10-gun brig. She was ordered in 1824, but the order was either cancelled in 1830, or otherwise transferred to become the next HMS Forester.
• was a 10-gun launched in 1832, wrecked in 1833 and sold in 1843.
• was an wooden screw gunboat launched in 1856. She was renamed YC7 as a yard craft in 1868, and was lost in a typhoon in 1871.
• was a composite screw gunboat launched in 1877. She became a coal hulk in 1894 and was sold in 1904.
• was an launched in 1911 and sold in 1921.
• was an F-class destroyer launched in 1934. She was sold for scrapping in 1946.

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Notes and References

1. Great Britain: Commissioners of Naval enquiry (1803) The First (second-twelfth) Report of the Commissioners of Naval Enquiry, Appointed by Act 43 Geo. III. (Observations, by Way of Supplement, to the First Report of the Commissioners of Naval Enquiry, on the Memorial of the Principal Officers and Commissioners of His Majesty's Navy, in Answer to that Report.), p.116.