Ten ships of the Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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 have been named HMS Beaver, after the animal, the beaver

Beaver

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, a ketch in the Royalist navy, captured by Parliamentary forces in 1656 and broken up two years later., 18, a sloop originally called Trudaine and operating as a French privateer, but captured in 1757 and renamed before being sold in 1761., 14, a sloop launched in 1761 and sold in 1783., 14, a sloop launched in 1795 and sold in 1808., 10, a Cherokee class sloop launched in 1809 and sold in 1829, a wooden paddle packet originally operating as a Post Office vessel but transferred to the Royal Navy in 1837. It became a dockyard lighter in 1845., an Albacore class gunboat launched in 1855 and broken up in 1864., a 125 ton tender transferred from the War Department to the Royal Navy in 1905 and sold in 1911.

• Beaver
  HMS Beaver (1911)
  HMS Beaver was an Acheron-class destroyer of the Royal Navy that served during the First World War and was sold for breaking in 1921. She was the ninth Royal Navy ship to be named Beaver, after the mammal of the same name.-Construction:...
  
  , an Acheron class destroyer
  Acheron class destroyer
  The Acheron class was a class of twenty-three destroyers of the British Royal Navy, all built under the 1910-11 Programme and completed between 1911 and 1912, which served during World War I. A further six ships were built to the same design for the Royal Australian Navy as River-class destroyers...
  
   launched in 1911 and sold in 1921.
• Beaver (F93)
  HMS Beaver (F93)
  HMS Beaver was a Type 22 frigate of the Royal Navy.HMS Beaver was the adopted ship of the town of Bolton. Despite being many miles inland the town has a proud naval tradition based on the fact that during one week in the Second World War it raised one million pounds for the Royal Navy...
  
  , a Type 22, or Broadsword class frigate
  Type 22 frigate
  The Type 22 Broadsword class is a class of frigate built for the British Royal Navy. Fourteen of the class were built in total, with production divided into three batches. With the decommissioning of HMS Cornwall on 30 June 2011, the final Type 22 of the Royal Navy was retired from service...
  
   launched in 1982 and scrapped in 2001.

See also

• HMS Beaver Prize was the American privateer Oliver Cromwell, of 14 guns, which Beaver captured in 1778. Beaver had only two men wounded, while the American loss was 20 killed and as many wounded. She was commissioned into the Royal Navy as Convert and renamed shortly thereafter. She was wrecked 11 October 1780 off Saint Lucia
  Saint Lucia
  Saint Lucia is an island country in the eastern Caribbean Sea on the boundary with the Atlantic Ocean. Part of the Lesser Antilles, it is located north/northeast of the island of Saint Vincent, northwest of Barbados and south of Martinique. It covers a land area of 620 km2 and has an...
  
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• HMCS Beaver
• Beaver, a ship that was one of the subjects of the Boston Tea Party
  Boston Tea Party
  The Boston Tea Party was a direct action by colonists in Boston, a town in the British colony of Massachusetts, against the British government and the monopolistic East India Company that controlled all the tea imported into the colonies...