HMS Dart

Nine ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Dart, after the River Dart in Devon:


 * HMS Dart (1796) was a 28-gun sloop launched in 1796 and broken up in 1809.
 * HMS Dart (1803) was an 8-gun lugger, previously a British privateer, recaptured from the French by HMS Apollo (1799) in 1803 and sold in 1808.
 * HMS Dart (1813) was a 10-gun cutter launched in 1810 and lost at sea in 1813.
 * HMS Dart (1847) was a 3-gun launched in 1847, converted to a coastguard vessel and renamed WV.26 in 1863 and broken up in 1875.
 * HMS Dart (1860) was a wooden launched in 1860. She was renamed HMS Kangaroo in 1882 and broken up in 1884.
 * HMS Dart (1882) was the ex-colonial yacht Cruiser, transferred in 1882, lent to the New South Wales government in 1904 and sold in 1912.
 * HMS PC.73 (1918), a PC-class sloop launched in 1918, was renamed HMS Dart in 1925. She was sold for breaking in 1938.
 * HMS Dart was the original name of the HMS Godetia (K226), launched in 1941, transferred to the Belgian forces in exile in 1942 and scrapped in 1947.
 * HMS Dart (1942) was a launched in 1942 and sold for breaking in 1956.