HMS Renard

Ten ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Renard, or HMS Reynard, after the French for fox, and the anthropomorphic figure of Reynard:


 * HMS Renard (1780) was an 18-gun sloop that HMS Brune (1761) captured from the French in July 1781. She became a hospital ship in Antigua in 1781-82, and was broken up in 1784.
 * HMS Renard (1797) was an 18-gun sloop, previously a French privateer. She was captured in 1797 and sold in 1805.
 * HMS Renard (1803) was a 14-gun schooner captured from the French in 1803 and sold for breaking up in 1809.
 * HMS Reynard (1808) was a 10-gun Cherokee-class brig-sloop launched in 1808 and sold for breaking up in 1818.
 * HMS Reynard (1821) was a 10-gun Cherokee-class brig-sloop launched in 1821. She was renamed HMS Renard in 1828, reclassified as a mooring vessel in 1841 and was broken up in 1857.
 * HMS Reynard (1848) was a wooden screw sloop launched in 1848 and wrecked in 1851.
 * HMS Renard (1856) was a wooden screw sloop launched in 1856 and broken up in 1866.
 * HMS Renard (1873) was a schooner launched in 1873 and sold in 1883.
 * HMS Renard (1892) was a torpedo gunboat launched in 1892 and sold in 1905.
 * HMS Renard (1909) was a Beagle-class destroyer launched in 1909 and sold in 1920.