HMS Harrier

Seven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Harrier:

• HMS Harrier (1804), an 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop launched in 1804 and lost around March 1809, presumed foundered off the Île de France.
• HMS Harrier (1813), an 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop launched in 1813, sold in 1829
• HMS Harrier (1831), an 18-gun sloop-of-war launched in 1831, broken up in 1840
• HMS Harrier (1854), a 17-gun wood screw sloop-of-war launched in 1854, broken up in 1866
• HMS Harrier (1881), a two-gun schooner launched in 1881, sold in 1888
• HMS Harrier (1894), a Dryad-class torpedo gunboat launched in 1894, sold in 1920
• HMS Harrier (J71), a Halcyon-class minesweeper launched in 1934, sold in 1950
• HMS Harrier (shore establishment) was also a Royal Naval shore establishment for radar research and training, near Dale, Pembrokeshire. It was commissioned in 1948 and closed in 1961.

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.
• Grocott, Terence (1997), Shipwrecks of the revolutionary and Napoleonic eras, Chatham, ISBN 1-86176-030-2