HMS Acorn

Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Acorn. A seventh was planned but never completed:

• HMS Acorn (1649) was a 22-gun ship hired between 1649 and 1654.
• HMS Acorn (1807) was an 18-gun sloop launched in 1807 and broken up in 1819.
• HMS Acorn (1826) was an 18-gun sloop launched in 1826 and wrecked in 1828.
• HMS Acorn was to have been an 18-gun sloop, but the order was cancelled in 1831.
• HMS Acorn (1838) was a 12-gun brig launched in 1838. She was used as a coal hulk from 1861 and was sold in 1869.
• HMS Acorn (1884) was a Mariner-class composite screw sloop launched in 1884 and sold in 1899.
• HMS Acorn (1910) was an Acorn class destroyer launched on 1 July 1910 and sold in 1921.

References

• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.