{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2018}} {{Use British English|date=January 2018}} Numerous Royal Navy vessels have been named '''HMS ''Dolphin''''' after the dolphin.
* The first seven ''Dolphins'' were small ketches and fireships. * {{HMS|Dolphin|1731}}, launched in 1731, was a 20-gun post ship, renamed ''Firebrand'' in 1755 and ''Penguin'' in 1757. * {{HMS|Dolphin|1751}}, launched in 1751, was a 24-gun post ship. She was used as a survey ship from 1764 and made two circumnavigations under the command of John Byron and Samuel Wallis. She was broken up in 1777. * {{HMS|Dolphin|1781}} was a 44-gun fifth rate launched in 1781 and broken up in 1817. * {{HMS|Dolphin|1799}} was originally the Dutch 24-gun ''Dolflin'', launched in 1780 at the Amsterdam naval yard, which {{HMS|Wolverine|1798|6}} and {{HMS|Arrow|1796|6}} captured at Vlie Island in 1799. She became a transport in 1800, a storeship in 1802, and was broken up in 1803. * {{HMS|Dolphin|1801}} was a 10 or 12-gun cutter hired by the Royal Navy in 1793, purchased in 1801, and sold in 1802. * {{HMS|Dolphin|1813}} was the 12-gun American privateer schooner ''Dolphin'' captured by Admiral John Borlase Warren's squadron on 13 April 1813. * {{HMS|Hindostan|1804}} was originally the East Indiaman ''Admiral Rainier'', purchased in 1804 and renamed ''Hindostan'', renamed ''Dolphin'' in 1819, and ''Justitia'' in 1830. She was used as a convict ship and sold in 1855. * {{HMS|Dolphin|1836}} was a 3-gun brigantine launched in 1836 and sold in 1894. * {{HMS|Dolphin|1882}} was a screw sloop launched in 1882. She served as a submarine depot ship in World War I. She foundered in 1925 but was beached and used as a school ship. She was broken up in 1977. * {{HMS|Dolphin|1924}} was originally the depot ship ''Pandora'', purchased in 1914. She was renamed ''Dolphin'' in 1924 and was sunk by a mine in 1939. * {{HMS|Dolphin|shore establishment}}, the spiritual home of the Royal Navy's submarine service at Fort Blockhouse in Gosport, and was a submarine base until 1994 and training school to 1999. ** HMS ''Dolphin'' (1938) was the former {{HMS|Aberfoyle}} transferred in 1938 as tender to the submarine base until 1947.
==Also== * {{HMS|Dolphins Prize}}, a brig-sloop that was formerly the French privateer ''La Marquise de Cavalaire'', captured by HMS ''Dolphin'' on 19 September 1747 * In 1803 {{HMS|Salvador del Mundo|1797|2}}, anchored in Portsmouth, had a cutter ''Dolphin'' that made two captures in company with the privateer ''Henry''.
==References== * {{Colledge: Ships RN|year=2006}}
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