HMS Oiseau

Three ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Oiseau, after the French for bird:


 * HMS Oiseau (1762), a 26-gun sixth rate captured from France on 23 October 1762 by HMS Brune in the Mediterranean.
 * HMS Oiseau (1779), a 32-gun fifth rate captured from France on 31 January 1779 by HMS Apollo and sold on 19 June 1783.
 * HMS Oiseau, a 36-gun fifth rate originally the French frigate Cléopâtre, which HMS Nymphe (1780) captured on 18 January 1793. Oiseau was converted to a prison ship in 1806 and sold on 18 September 1816.