HMS Pike explained

Five ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Pike, after the Northern pike, a species of fish:

• was a 4-gun launched in 1804 and captured by a French privateer in 1807. recaptured her in 1808, and she reentered naval service; her ultimate fate is currently not clear.
• was the French privateer schooner Gipsey, captured in 1806, and was renamed Pike in 1808 but reverted to her previous name after the recapture of Pike. She foundered in 1810.
• was a 14-gun schooner, previously the American Dart. She was captured in 1813 and was wrecked in 1836.
• was a wooden paddle packet launched in 1824 as the General Post Office's Spitfire. She was transferred to the Royal Navy in 1837 and was broken up in 1868.
• was an iron screw gunboat launched in 1872. She became a boom defence vessel in 1908 and was sold in 1920.