View source for HMS Dart

{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2017}}
{{Use British English|date=August 2017}}
Ten ships of the [[Royal Navy]] have borne the name '''HMS ''Dart''''', after the [[River Dart]] in Devon:

* {{HMS|Dart|1796}} was a 28-gun [[sloop-of-war]] launched in 1796 and broken up in 1809.
* {{HMS|Dart|1803}} was an 8-gun [[lugger]], previously the British privateer ''Dart'', built in 1796, captured by the French in 1798, recaptured from the French by {{HMS|Apollo|1799|6}} in 1803, and sold in 1808. 
* {{HMS|Dart|1810}} was a 10-gun [[Cutter (boat)|cutter]], the mercantile ''Belerina'' or ''Ballerina'', which had been building at Mevagissey in 1809; the Royal Navy purchased her in 1810 and she was lost at sea in between October and December 1813.
* {{HMS|Dart|1847}} was a 3-gun {{sclass|Pandora|brig}} launched in 1847, converted to a coastguard vessel and renamed ''WV.26'' in 1863 and broken up in 1875.
* {{HMS|Dart|1860}} was a wooden {{sclass|Philomel|gunvessel}} launched in 1860. She was renamed HMS ''Kangaroo'' in 1882 and broken up in 1884.
* {{HMS|Dart|1882}} was the ex-colonial yacht ''Cruiser'', transferred in 1882, lent to the New South Wales government in 1904 and sold in 1912.
* {{HMS|PC.73|1918}}, a [[P-class sloop|PC-class sloop]] launched in 1918, was renamed  HMS ''Dart'' in 1925. She was sold for breaking in 1938.
* {{HMS|Dart|minesweeper}}, an auxiliary [[minesweeper]] that struck a mine and sankin the Suez Canal on [[List of shipwrecks in March 1941#8 March|8 March 1941]]
* HMS ''Dart'' was the original name of the {{sclass2|Flower|corvette}} {{HMS|Godetia|K226|6}}, launched in 1941, transferred to the Belgian forces in exile in 1942 and scrapped in 1947.
* {{HMS|Dart|K21}} was a {{sclass2|River|frigate}} launched in 1942 and sold for breaking in 1956.

==Also==
*[[HM hired armed cutter Dart]] (1803–1805)

==References==
{{Cite Colledge2006}}

{{Ship index}}
{{Italic title prefixed|3}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dart, Hms}}
[[Category:Royal Navy ship names]]