HMS Garland

Fifteen warships of the British Royal Navy were named HMS Garland . The name goes back to a ship from 1242 and is the oldest confirmed ship name in the Royal Navy.

• The first HMS Garland was a 38/48 gun galleon that was built in 1590 and sank in 1618.
• The second HMS Garland was launched in 1620 and was captured by the Dutch in the sea ​​battle at Dungeness in 1652 .
• The third HMS Garland was originally named HMS Grantham , was renamed HMS Garland in 1660 , classified as a Brander in 1688 , converted into a frigate in 1689 and sold in 1698.
• The fourth HMS Garland , a 44-gun frigate that entered service in 1703, was shipwrecked in 1709 .
• The fifth HMS Garland was the 32-gun frigate HMS Scarborough , built in 1696 and captured by the French in 1710. After the reconquest in 1712, it was reclassified as a fire, and was sold in 1744.
• The sixth HMS Garland , a 6th rank ship with 24 guns, was launched in 1748, converted to the Hulk in 1768 and sold in 1783.
• The seventh HMS Garland originally carried the name Guirlande as a French 20-gun frigate , was captured in 1762 and sold in 1783.
• The eighth HMS Garland was commissioned in 1779 as HMS Sibyl , a 6th rank ship with 28 guns, renamed HMS Garland in 1795 and stranded off Madagascar in 1798 .
• The ninth HMS Garland was a 6-cannon schooner that was purchased in 1798 and no longer appears in the relevant registers after 1803.
• The tenth HMS Garland , launched as the French 22-gun privateer Mars , was captured by HMS Amethyst in 1800 and stranded in the Caribbean in 1803.
• The eleventh HMS Garland , a 32-gun Laurel-class frigate , was launched in 1807 and sold in 1817.
• The twelfth HMS Garland was a paddle steamer that was in service from 1847 to 1856.
• The thirteenth HMS Garland ran in 1856 as a screw gunboat of Cheerful class launching and the 1864 scrapped .
• The fourteenth HMS Garland was a Acasta class - destroyer , was commissioned in 1913 and participated in the Battle of Jutland in part.
• The fifteenth HMS Garland was a G-class destroyer and served as ORP Garland for the Polish Navy during World War II .