# HMS Tweed

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**HMS *Tweed*** may refer to any one of several [Royal Navy](/source/Royal_Navy) ships named for the [River Tweed](/source/River_Tweed), including:

- [HMS *Tweed* (1759)](/source/HMS_Tweed_(1759))
- HMS *Tweed* was an [*Amazon*-class frigate](/source/Amazon-class_frigate) ordered and [laid down](/source/Keel_laying) in 1795, but was renamed [HMS *Glenmore*](/source/HMS_Glenmore_(1796)) on 30 October 1795 before her launch in 1796.
- [HMS *Tweed* (1807)](/source/HMS_Tweed_(1807)), a [ship-sloop](/source/Ship-sloop) wrecked in 1813.
- [HMS *Tweed* (1823)](/source/HMS_Tweed_(1823)), a 28-gun [sixth-rate](/source/Sixth-rate) [frigate](/source/Sailing_frigate) built in 1823 at Portsmouth and sold in 1852.
- [HMS *Tweed* (1877)](/source/HMS_Tweed_(1877)), a [torpedo gunboat](/source/Torpedo_gunboat).
- [HMS *Tweed* (K250)](/source/HMS_Tweed_(K250)), [River-class frigate](/source/River-class_frigate) of 1,460 tons displacement launched about 1943 and sunk on 7 January 1944 during the [Second World War](/source/World_War_II).

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