HMS Goshawk

Five ships and a shore establishment of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Goshawk, after the bird of prey, the goshawk. A sixth ship was renamed before being launched:

• HMS Goshawk (1806) was a 16-gun brig-sloop launched in 1806 and wrecked in 1813.
• HMS Goshawk (1814) was an 18-gun brig-sloop launched in 1814 and shipped to Canada for completion. She was found to be unsuitable and was sold in 1815.
• HMS Goshawk was to have been a 12-gun brig-sloop but she was renamed HMS Nerbudda in 1845 before being launched in 1847.
• HMS Goshawk (1856) was an Albacore-class wooden screw gunboat launched in 1856 and broken up in 1869.
• HMS Goshawk (1872) was a composite screw gunboat launched in 1872. She was hulked in 1902 and sold c. 1906.
• HMS Goshawk (1911) was an Acheron-class destroyer launched in 1911 and sold in 1921.

• HMS Goshawk (shore establishment) was a Royal Naval Air Station at Trinidad, commissioned in 1940 and paid off in 1946. Also known as RNAS Piarco, it is now Piarco International Airport.

List of ships with the same or similar names

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