HMS Hunter
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No less than seventeen vessels of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Hunter.
- The first Hunter was a dogger captured in 1646 and sold 1649.
- The fifteenth Hunter (H35) was a destroyer launched in 1936 and lost in a 1940 collision.
- The sixteenth Hunter (D80) was the loaned US escort aircraft carrier originally named USS Block Island (CVE-8), in use from 1943 to 1945.
- The seventeenth Hunter was a patrol and training boat launched in 1983 and sold to Lebanon in 1991.
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