HMS Netley

At least six vessels of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Netley, named for the village of Netley.


 * HMS Netley (1798) was launched in 1798. The French captured her in 1806, and she became the 21-gun privateer Duquesne. In 1807 HMS Blonde captured Duquesne, which the Royal Navy returned to service as the 12-gun gun-brig HMS Unique. She was expended in an unsuccessful fireship attack at Guadeloupe in 1809.
 * HMS Netley (1807) was the French privateer brig Determinée of Guadeloupe, which HMS Venus (1758) captured on 18 January 1807 one hundred leagues east of Barbados after a chase of 16 hours. Determinée was pierced for 20 guns but carried 14, and a crew of 108 men. The British took her into service as HMS Netley. She was under the command of Lieutenant Charles Burman when she wrecked on 10 July 1808 on the Leeward Islands station. Of her crew of about 60 only a midshipman and eight crewmen survived.
 * HMS Netley (1808) was the American brig Nimrod launched in 1803 that the Royal Navy captured in 1807 and purchased in 1808. She was broken up in 1814.
 * HMS Netley was a 16-gun ship launched as Prince Regent in 1812 that served the Royal Navy on Lake Ontario. She was converted into a schooner in 1813 and renamed Beresford. She was re-rigged as a brig in 1814 or 1815 and renamed Netley, and Niagara in 1817, at which time she served as a base ship. She was broken up in 1843.
 * HMS Netley (1823) was a former revenue cutter of eight guns, that served as a tender to various vessels until c.1859.
 * HMS Netley (1866) was a Britomart-class gunboat built at Portsmouth. She was sold for breaking up in 1885.