HMS Reindeer explained

Four ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Reindeer or Rein Deer, after the Reindeer:

• was an 18-gun, launched in 1804, captured by in 1814, and subsequently burnt.
• was an 8-gun packet brig launched in 1829, on harbour service from 1841 and sold in 1847. Despite this, she remained on the Navy lists until 1856.
• was a wood screw sloop launched in 1866. Work had been suspended in 1865 but was subsequently restarted. She was broken up in 1876.
• was a screw sloop launched in 1883. She was used as a boom defence vessel from 1904, and a salvage vessel from 1917. She was sold in 1929.

There was also a requisitioned trawler launched in 1902 and named Reindeer.

See also

• , an armed yacht that served in the Battle of the Atlantic and the Battle of the St. Lawrence.