HMS Dover

Eight ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Dover, after the English town and seaport of Dover:


 * HMS Dover (1649) was a pink captured from the Royalists in 1649 and sold in 1650.
 * HMS Dover (1654) was a 48-gun ship launched in 1654, rebuilt in 1695 and 1716 and broken up in 1730.
 * HMS Dover (1672) was an 8-gun dogger captured from the Dutch in 1672 and given away in 1677.
 * HMS Dover (1740) was a 44-gun fifth rate launched in 1740 and sold in 1763.
 * HMS Dover (1786) was a 44-gun fifth rate launched in 1786, converted to an armed transport by 1799, and burnt by accident in 1806. Because Dover served in the navy's Egyptian campaign between 8 March 1801 and 2 September, her officers and crew qualified for the clasp "Egypt" to the Naval General Service Medal, which the Admiralty issued in 1847 to all surviving claimants.
 * HMS Dover was a 38-gun fifth rate, previously the East Indiaman Carron. She was purchased in 1804 and renamed HMS Duncan.  She was renamed HMS Dover in 1807 and was wrecked in 1811.
 * HMS Dover (1811) was a 38-gun troopship, previously the French ship Bellone. She was captured in 1811, used for harbour service from 1825 and was sold in 1836.
 * HMS Dover (1840) was an iron paddle packet launched in 1840. She was the first iron ship in the Royal Navy, and was sold in 1866.