HMS Pigeon explained

Several vessels of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Pigeon.

• was the ex-mercantile Fanny, purchased in May 1805 and fitted and armed as a dispatch cutter. She was wrecked three quarters of a mile from the town of Rysum in East Friesland in November 1805 through the inexperience of her pilot.
• was a launched in 1806 and wrecked off Margate in 1809.
• Pigeon: See .
• was the mercantile wood paddle tender Brothers purchased at Constantinople in 1854 and sold there in 1856.
• was a wood screw built in 1860 and broken up in 1876.
• was a composite screw gunboat built in 1888 and sold in 1906.
• was an built in 1916 and sold in 1921.