HMS Arrow

HMS Arrow

Seven ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS "Arrow", after the projectile:

* "Arrow", a 20-gun sloop purchased in 1796, but captured by two French frigates near Gibraltar on 4 February 1805.
* "Arrow", a 14-gun cutter launched at Deptford Dockyard on 7 September 1805, and converted to a breakwater in May 1815. Broken up in May 1828.
* "Arrow", a 10-gun cutter launched at Portsmouth in 14 March 1823 and broken up in January 1852.
* "Arrow", a 477 ton "Arrow"-class wooden screw dispatch vessel launched at Blackwall on 26 June 1854 and sold on 19 May 1862.
* "Arrow", an "Ant"-class iron gunboat launched at Greenwich on 22 April 1871 and sold on 1 March 1922.
* "Arrow" (H42), launched 1929, was an A-class destroyer that served in World War II and was damaged beyond repair in Algiers harbour in 1944 when an ammunition ship exploded. The hulk was broken up in May 1949.
* "Arrow" (F173), launched 1974, was a Type 21 frigate that served in the Falklands War. She was sold to Pakistan in 1994 and renamed "Kaibar".

The Royal Australian Navy had a 146 ton patrol boat called "Arrow". Launched on 17 February 1968, it was wrecked on 25 December 1974 at Darwin, Australia.

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