# HMS Dolphin

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Numerous [Royal Navy](/source/Royal_Navy) vessels have been named '''HMS ''Dolphin''''' after the [dolphin](/source/dolphin).

* The first seven ''Dolphins'' were small [ketch](/source/ketch)es and [fireship](/source/fireship)s.
* {{HMS|Dolphin|1731}}, launched in 1731, was a 20-gun [post ship](/source/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](/source/survey_ship) from 1764 and made two [circumnavigation](/source/circumnavigation)s under the command of [John Byron](/source/John_Byron) and [Samuel Wallis](/source/Samuel_Wallis). She was broken up in 1777.
* {{HMS|Dolphin|1781}} was a 44-gun [fifth rate](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Cutter_(ship)) 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](/source/John_Borlase_Warren)'s squadron on 13 April 1813. 
* {{HMS|Hindostan|1804}} was originally the [East Indiaman](/source/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](/source/convict_ship) and sold in 1855.
* {{HMS|Dolphin|1836}} was a 3-gun [brigantine](/source/brigantine) launched in 1836 and sold in 1894.
* {{HMS|Dolphin|1882}} was a screw [sloop](/source/sloop-of-war) launched in 1882. She served as a [submarine depot ship](/source/submarine_depot_ship) in [World War I](/source/World_War_I). She foundered in 1925 but was beached and used as a [school ship](/source/school_ship). She was broken up in 1977.
* {{HMS|Dolphin|1924}} was originally the [depot ship](/source/depot_ship) ''Pandora'', purchased in 1914. She was renamed ''Dolphin'' in 1924 and was sunk by a [mine](/source/naval_mine) in 1939.
* {{HMS|Dolphin|shore establishment}}, the spiritual home of the Royal Navy's submarine service at [Fort Blockhouse](/source/Fort_Blockhouse) in [Gosport](/source/Gosport), and was a [submarine base](/source/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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