• HMS Vigilant was a schooner, which served on the Canadian lakes. She was captured by the French in 1756.
• HMS Vigilant
  HMS Vigilant (1774)
  HMS Vigilant was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 6 October 1774 at Bucklers Hard.From 1799 she served as a prison ship, and was broken up in 1816....
  
   was a 64 gun third rate ship of the line
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  , built in 1774. She was converted to a prison ship
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   in 1799, and sank in 1806. She was subsequently raised several months later, and broken up in 1814.
• HMS Vigilant was an armed ship purchased in 1777, formerly the Empress of Russia. She was burnt as unfit in 1780.
• HMS Vigilant was a schooner
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  , purchased in 1803, and sold in 1808.
• HMS Vigilant was previously the French schooner Imperial, captured by HMS Cygnet in 1806, and later that year, renamed HMS Subtle. She was wrecked off Bermuda
  Bermuda
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   in 1807.
• HMS Vigilant was a cutter built in 1821 and sold in 1832.
• HMS Vigilant was a wood screw frigate
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  , ordered in 1846, but cancelled in 1849.
• HMS Vigilant was a wood screw gunvessel, built in 1856 and sold in 1869.
• HMS Vigilant was a wood paddle despatch boat, built in 1871, and sold in 1886 to serve as a despatch boat in Hong Kong
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  .
• HMS Vigilant was a C-class destroyer
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  , built speculatively by the yards of John Brown & Company
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  , launched in 1900 and bought that year by the navy. She was sold in 1920 for breaking up.
• HMS Vigilant
  HMS Vigilant (R93)
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   was an V-class
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   destroyer
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   that saw service during World War II
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  . She was later converted into a Type 15
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   fast anti-submarine
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   frigate
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• HMS Vigilant was a patrol boat launched in March 1975, and renamed Meavy in July 1986.
• HMS Vigilant
  HMS Vigilant (S30)
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   is a Vanguard'- class
  Vanguard class submarine
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   submarine
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  , commissioned
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   in November 1996 and currently in service.

See also

• Two similarly named ships, HMS Vigilante