• HMS Pioneer was a 14-gun brig
  Brig
  A brig is a sailing vessel with two square-rigged masts. During the Age of Sail, brigs were seen as fast and manoeuvrable and were used as both naval warships and merchant vessels. They were especially popular in the 18th and early 19th centuries...
  
   listed 1804–1807.
• HMS Pioneer was a 12-gun cutter launched in 1810. She was converted to a schooner
  Schooner
  A schooner is a type of sailing vessel characterized by the use of fore-and-aft sails on two or more masts with the forward mast being no taller than the rear masts....
  
   in 1813 and back to a cutter in 1819. She was used as a coastguard vessel from 1824 and sold in 1849.
• HMS Pioneer was a wood screw
  Propeller
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   discovery vessel launched in 1850. She was originally named Eider. She was abandoned in 1854 in the Arctic
  Arctic
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• HMS Pioneer
  HMS Pioneer (1856)
  HMS Pioneer was a 4-gun Intrepid-class gunvessel launched on 19 January 1856 from the Pembroke Dockyard. She saw active service in China and was decommissioned in 1864.-Service history:...
  
   was a wood screw
  Propeller
  A propeller is a type of fan that transmits power by converting rotational motion into thrust. A pressure difference is produced between the forward and rear surfaces of the airfoil-shaped blade, and a fluid is accelerated behind the blade. Propeller dynamics can be modeled by both Bernoulli's...
  
   gunvessel launched in 1856. She was broken up in 1865.
• HMS Pioneer was a wood paddle
  Paddle boat
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   survey vessel transferred from the Colonial Office in 1864. She was sold in 1873.
• HMS Pioneer was a composite paddle
  Paddle boat
  Paddle boat may refer to:* Paddle steamer or paddleboat, a boat propelled by a paddle wheel* Pedalo, a boat propelled by pedalling with the feet* A boat which is paddled, such as a canoe or kayak...
  
   vessel launched in 1874. She was broken up in 1888.
• HMS Pioneer was a river gunboat
  Gunboat
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   launched in 1892. In 1893 she was dismantled and then re-erected in Lake Nyasa. She was transferred to the British Central Africa government in 1894.
• HMS Pioneer
  HMAS Pioneer
  HMAS Pioneer was a Pelorus class light cruiser built for the Royal Navy at the end of the 19th century. She was transferred to the fledgling Royal Australian Navy in 1912...
  
   was a Pelorus-class
  Pelorus class cruiser
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   light cruiser launched in 1899. She was transferred to the Royal Australian Navy
  Royal Australian Navy
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   in 1912 where she became HMAS Pioneer
  HMAS Pioneer
  HMAS Pioneer was a Pelorus class light cruiser built for the Royal Navy at the end of the 19th century. She was transferred to the fledgling Royal Australian Navy in 1912...
  
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• HMS Pioneer
  HMS Pioneer (R76)
  HMS Pioneer was a Colossus-class aircraft carrier built for the Royal Navy during World War II. She was modified whilst under construction into an aircraft maintenance carrier. The ship arrived in Australia in mid-1945 to support operations by the British Pacific Fleet against Japanese forces...
  
   was a Colossus-class
  Colossus class aircraft carrier
  The 1942 Design Light Fleet Carrier, commonly referred to as the British Light Fleet Carrier, was a light aircraft carrier design created by the Royal Navy during World War II, and used by eight naval forces between 1944 and 2001...
  
   aircraft carrier
  Aircraft carrier
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   launched in 1944. She was originally named Ethalion, then Mars. She was broken up in 1954.

See also

• Pioneer (1862)
  Pioneer (1862)
  Pioneer was a 19th century paddle-steamer gunboat used in New Zealand. Built in Sydney to the order of the New Zealand colonial government by the Australian Steam Navigation Company, she cost 9,500 pounds...
  
  , a gunboat commissioned by New Zealand
  New Zealand
  New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
  
  and manned by the Royal Navy