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Sixteen ships and two [[shore establishment]]s of the [[Royal Navy]] have been named '''HMS ''Fox''''', after the [[fox]].

==Ships==
*{{HMS|Fox|1650}} was a 22-gun ship captured from the French in 1650 and expended as a [[fireship]] in 1656.
*{{HMS|Fox|1658}} was a 14-gun ship captured in 1658 and expended as a fireship in 1666.
*{{HMS|Fox|1690}} was an 8-gun fireship launched in 1690 and expended in 1692 at [[Battles of Barfleur and La Hougue|La Hougue]].
*{{HMS|Fox|1699}} was a 6-gun [[sloop-of-war|sloop]] launched in 1699 and wrecked later that year.
*{{HMS|Fox|1705|6}} was a 24-gun [[sixth rate]] captured in 1705 and wrecked the following year.
*[[HMS Nightingale (1702)|HMS ''Fox'']] was a 24-gun sixth rate launched in 1702 as {{HMS|Nightingale|1702|6}}. She was captured by the French in 1707, was recaptured later that year and renamed HMS ''Fox'', rebuilt in 1727 and broken up in 1737.
*{{HMS|Fox|1740}} was a 20-gun sixth rate launched in 1740 and foundered in 1745.
*{{HMS|Fox|1746}} was a 24-gun sixth rate launched in 1746 and foundered in a [[hurricane]] in 1751.
*{{HMS|Fox|1766}} was an 8-gun [[ketch]] launched in 1766, and still in the records in 1772.
*{{HMS|Fox|1773}} was a 28-gun sixth rate launched in 1773, captured by the Americans in 1777, recaptured a month later, then captured by the French in 1778. She ran aground in March 1779 on Pointe St Jacques on [[Rhuys Peninsula]] and could not be refloated.
*{{HMS|Fox|1780}} was a 32-gun [[fifth rate]] launched in 1780 and broken up in 1816.
*HM [[hired armed vessels|hired armed]] [[Cutter (ship)|cutter]] {{ship|Hired armed cutter|Fox||2}}, of twelve 9-pounder guns, was hired on 27 March 1793 and sunk in action at the [[Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife (1797)]].{{sfnp|Winfield|2008|p=387}}
*{{HMS|Fox|1799}} was a 14-gun [[schooner]] purchased in 1799 and wrecked later that year off [[Dog Island (Florida)|Dog Island]], [[Apalachee Bay]], [[Florida]]. There were no lives lost despite the fact that the crew had to wait for 33 days with little food and water before they were rescued.{{sfnp|Grocott|1997|p=78}}
*{{HMS|Fox|1829}} was a 46-gun fifth rate launched in 1829, converted to a [[screw frigate]] in 1856, and broken up in 1882.
*{{HMS|Fox|1893}} was an {{sclass|Astraea|cruiser|0}} [[second class cruiser]] launched in 1893 and sold in 1920.
*{{HMS|Fox|A320}} was a [[survey vessel]] launched in 1967 and sold in 1989.

==Shore establishments==
*{{HMS|Fox|shore establishment}} was the Navy's base at [[Lerwick]], [[Shetland]] between 1939 and 1945. 
*HMS ''Fox II'' was the [[Coastal Forces of the Royal Navy|Coastal Forces]] Base at Lerwick between 1942 and 1944.

==Battle honours==
Ships named ''Fox'' have earned the following [[Battle honour#Naval battle honours|battle honours]]:{{efn|name=honours|group=note|In the Royal Navy, and other Commonwealth navies that follow the traditions of the RN, battle honours awarded to a ship are inherited by subsequent ships to bear the same name, and are displayed on the ship's honours board.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.royalnavyresearcharchive.org.uk/ESCORT/Battle_hons.htm |title=Battle Honours of RN ships & Naval Air Squadrons |author=<!--Not stated--> |date= |website=Royal Navy Research Archive |publisher= |access-date= |quote=}}</ref>}}
*[[Battle of the Gabbard|Gabbard]], 1653
*[[St. James's Day Battle|Orfordness]], 1666
*[[Action at Barfleur|Barfleur]], 1692
*[[Battle of Genoa (1795)|Genoa]], 1795
*[[Battle of Cape St Vincent (1797)|St Vincent]], 1797
*[[French campaign in Egypt and Syria|Egypt]], 1801
*[[Second Anglo-Burmese War|Burma]], 1852-3

==See also==
*{{HMS|Foxglove}}
*{{HMS|Foxhound}}
*{{HMS|Flying Fox}}
*{{ship||Fox|ship}}, Arctic exploration vessel.

==Citations==
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==References==
* {{cite book |last=Grocott | first=Terence |title=Shipwrecks of the Revolutionary & Napoleonic Eras |publisher=Chatham |location=London |year=1997 |isbn=1861760302}}
* {{cite book |first1=Rif |last1=Winfield |title=British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates |publisher=Seaforth Publishing|year=2008 |isbn=978-1-86176-246-7}}

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