HMS Hind explained

Eighteen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Hind or HMS Hynd:

• was a 28-gun vessel built in 1545 and sold in 1555.
• was an 18-gun ship purchased in 1643 and listed until 1651. She was in Royalist hands between 1648 and 1649.
• was an 8-gun ketch launched in 1655 and wrecked in 1668.
• was a 6-gun dogger captured from the Dutch in 1672 and recaptured by them in 1674.
• was a 10-gun ketch launched in 1691 captured by the French in 1697.
• was a 12-gun sixth rate purchased in 1709 and lost to a stranding later that year.
• was a 16-gun sixth rate captured in 1709. She bilged on her anchor in 1711 and sank.
• was a 20-gun sixth rate launched in 1711 and wrecked in 1721. The ship struck a rock "half a musket shot" off Guernsey castle on 7 December 1721, and 21 hands were lost including the Captain Fuzzard. The loss was attributed to the "ignorance of the pilot". 94 of the ship's company were saved.^[1] Amongst those rescued was the ship's surgeon, Mr Forkington, "who was laid up with the gout, but made shift to swim to a rock not far distant, and the cold baths that endangered his life, hath effectively cured his said distemper."^[2] The pilot was tried and found guilty, and was sentenced to three years imprisonment and loss of pay.^[3]
• was a sloop launched in 1741 and sold in 1743.
• was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1744. She foundered in 1747.
• was a 24-gun sixth rate launched in 1749. She became a storeship in 1783 and was sold in 1784.
• was a 28-gun sixth rate launched in 1785 and broken up in 1811.
• was a 10-gun tender, launched in 1790 as a revenue cutter. As a naval cutter she captured several privateers, participated in the battle of Navarino, and was sold in 1844.
• was a 20-gun sixth rate, built as HMS Barbadoes, but renamed before being launched in 1814. She was sold in 1829.
• was a wooden screw gunboat launched in 1855 and broken up in 1872.
• was a coastguard yawl launched in 1880 and wrecked in 1900.
• was an launched in 1911, sold in 1921 and broken up in 1924.
• was a Modified Black Swan-class sloop launched in 1943 and broken up in 1958.

See also

• Golden Hind

Notes and References

1. News: From the Whitehall Evening Post, Jan 2. Caledonian Mercury . 9 January 1722 . 6 September 2014 . British Newspaper Archive. subscription .
2. News: From the Weekly Journal; Or, Saturday's Post, London Jan.6. Newcastle Courant . 13 January 1722 . 6 September 2014 . British Newspaper Archive. subscription .
3. News: From the St Jame's Evening Post, London Jan.18. Newcastle Courant . 27 January 1722 . 6 September 2014 . British Newspaper Archive. subscription .