HMS Bulldog

Seven vessels of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS "Bulldog", after the bulldog:

* The first "Bulldog" was a small 4-gun vessel bought in March 1794 and sold later in the same year.
* The second "Bulldog" was a 16-gun sloop launched in 1782 but converted to a Royal Navy bomb vessel in 1798. She was broken up at Portsmouth in December 1829.
* The third "Bulldog" was a wooden steam powered paddle sloop launched in 1845 but ran aground in 1865 whilst attacking Haiti as part of a punitive raid against revolutionaries who had seized the British consulate. Unable to get her off of the reef, the British blew her up.
* The fourth "Bulldog" was a third class gunboat of the "Ant"-class, sold for scrapping in 1906.
* The fifth "Bulldog" was a "Beagle" class destroyer scrapped in 1920.
* The sixth "Bulldog" was a destroyer launched in 1930 and scrapped in 1946. She is most famous for the actions of some of her crew in making the first capture of an Enigma machine.
* The seventh "Bulldog" was launched in 1967 as the lead ship of the "Bulldog"-class coastal survey ships and sold in 2001 for conversion to a private yacht.

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