# HMS Fancy

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Three vessels of the [Royal Navy](/source/Royal_Navy) have been named **HMS *Fancy***:

- [HMS *Fancy* (1806)](/source/HMS_Fancy_(1806)) was a 12-gun [gun brig](/source/Gun_brig) launched in 1806. She foundered off [Montrose](/source/Montrose,_Angus) in 1811.[1]
- [HMS *Fancy* (1855)](/source/HMS_Fancy_(1855)) was a [*Dapper*-class](/source/Dapper-class_gunboat) [gunboat](/source/Gunboat) launched in 1855. In 1876 she was placed on harbour service before being sold in 1905.
- [HMS *Fancy* (J308)](/source/HMS_Fancy_(J308)) was an [*Algerine*-class](/source/Algerine-class_minesweeper) [minesweeper](/source/Minesweeper) launched in 1943. She was sold to the [Belgian Navy](/source/Belgian_Navy) in 1951, renamed *A. F. Dufour* and then [hulked](/source/Hulk_(ship_type)) in 1959 as *Nzadi*. She was abandoned and sunk in the [Belgian Congo](/source/Belgian_Congo) in 1960.

## See also

- The [hired armed pinnace *Fancy*](/source/Hired_armed_pinnace_Fancy) was a hired [pinnace](/source/Pinnace_(ship's_boat)) that fought against the [Spanish Armada](/source/Spanish_Armada) in 1588.

## References

1. Grocott (1997), p. 406.

- Grocott, Terence (1997). *Shipwrecks of the Revolutionary & Napoleonic Eras*. Caxton Editions. ISBN 1-84067-164-5.

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