HMS Pigeon

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


 * HMS Pigeon (1805) was the ex-mercantile Fanny, purchased in May 1805 and fitted and armed (with 4 x 12-pounder carronades) 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.
 * HMS Pigeon (1806) was a Cuckoo class schooner launched in 1806 and wrecked off Margate in 1809.
 * Pigeon: See HMS Variable (1827).
 * HMS Pigeon (1854) was the mercantile wood paddle tender Brothers purchased at Constantinople in 1854 and sold there in 1856.
 * HMS Pigeon (1860) was a wood screw Britomart class gunboat built in 1860 and broken up in 1876.
 * HMS Pigeon (1888) was a composite screw gunboat built in 1888 and sold in 1906.
 * HMS Pigeon (1916) was an M-class destroyer built in 1916 and sold in 1921.