HMS Seagull

Eight ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Seagull or HMS Sea Gull, after the gull:

• HMS Seagull (1795) was a 16-gun brig-sloop that disappeared in the English Channel in February 1805.
• HMS Seagull (1805) was a 16-gun Seagull-class brig-sloop that the Danes captured in 1808; she sank but the Danes recovered her and returned her to service. After the separation of Norway from Denmark, she transferred to the Norwegian Navy, which decommissioned her in 1817.
• HMS Seagull (1808) was a 16-gun brig-sloop, formerly the French Sylphe. The Royal Navy captured her in 1808 and sold her in 1814.
• HMS Seagull (1831) was a 12-gun schooner broken up in 1856.
• HMS Seagull (1855) was an Albacore-class wooden screw gunboat sold in 1864.
• HMS Seagull (1868) was a Plover-class gunvessel sold in 1887.
• HMS Seagull (1889) was a Sharpshooter-class torpedo gunboat converted to a minesweeper in 1909 and was sunk in a collision in 1918.
• HMS Seagull (J85) was a Halcyon-class minesweeper launched in 1937. She became a survey ship in 1945 and was broken up in 1956.