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'''HMS ''Swift''''' has been the name of numerous ships of the [[Royal Navy]]:

:''This list may be incomplete.''

* {{HMS|Swift|1697}} was a 10-gun ship that was launched 1697 and ran aground off Port Comfort, [[Virginia]] in 1698.
* {{HMS|Swift|1704}} was a [[sloop-of-war]] of the Swift group, built in 1704 and sold in 1719. See [[List of corvette and sloop classes of the Royal Navy]] for this vessel and the four following sloops.
* {{HMS|Swift|1721}} was a sloop of the ''Otter'' class, built in 1721 and sold in 1741.
* {{HMS|Swift|1741}} was a sloop of the ''Drake'' class, built in 1741, and lost in 1756.
* {{HMS|Swift|1761}} was the French 10-gun [[cutter (boat)|cutter]] ''Le Comte de Valence'', captured in 1760 and purchased by the Royal Navy on 6 March 1761. She was re-captured by the French [[privateer]] ''Manley''  on 30 June of the same year.
* {{HMS|Swift|1763}} was a 14-gun sloop of the ''Swift'' class, built in 1763. She sank at [[Puerto Deseado]], [[Patagonia]], in 1770.
* {{HMS|Swift|1777}} was a 302-ton burthen, ship-sloop which served in the American Revolutionary War. She ran aground after sinking an American privateer and was burnt by her crew in 1778 to avoid capture.
* {{HMS|Swift|1779}} was a 14-gun [[brigantine]], launched in 1767, that the British captured from the United States in August 1779. She was commissioned in November under the command of Robert (or Richard) Sutton.<ref name="NMM-WH-377029">{{cite web|url=http://www.nmm.ac.uk/upload/pdf/Warship_Histories_Vessels_iv.pdf|title=NMM, vessel ID 377029|work=Warship Histories, vol iv|publisher=[[National Maritime Museum]]|access-date=30 July 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20110802041617/http://www.nmm.ac.uk/upload/pdf/Warship_Histories_Vessels_iv.pdf|archive-date=2 August 2011|df=dmy-all}}</ref>{{refn|Although some sources state that the French frigates [[French frigate Friponne (1780)|''Friponne'']] and [[French frigate Résolue (1778)|''Résolue'']] captured her on 11 August 1782,<ref>Hepper (1994), p.69.</ref> there is evidence that the two vessels the French captured were actually Falmouth packets. It is not currently possible to confirm, or rule out, that ''Swift'' became the Falmouth packet ''Swift''.|group=Note}}
* {{HMS|Swift|1793}} was a 16-gun ''Hawk''-class sloop launched in 1793 that was lost with all hands while sailing from Macao to England, presumed foundered in the South China Sea in a typhoon after last being seen on 2 July 1797.<ref>Hepper (1994), p. 85.</ref>
* {{HMS|Swift|1794}} was a 4-gun pilot-boat schooner built at [[Norfolk, Virginia]], that the Royal Navy purchased in 1794 and that was broken up in 1802.<ref>Winfield (2008), p.356.</ref>
* {{HMS|Swift|1804}} was the mercantile sloop ''Pacific'', launched at [[Rotherhithe]] in 1802 that the Navy purchased in 1804, laid up in 1807, converted to a store ship in 1810, and sold in 1814.<ref>Winfield (2008), p. 263.</ref>
* {{HMS|Swift|1817}}, a {{sclass|Quail|schooner}} in service from 1817 to 1821
* {{HMS|Swift|1835}} was a [[Packet ship|packet]] [[brig]] launched in 1835.
* {{HMS|Swift|1879}} was a gunvessel launched 1879, and sold in Hong Kong in 1920 for mercantile use. See [[List of gunboat and gunvessel classes of the Royal Navy]].
* {{HMS|Swift|TB81}} was a [[torpedo boat]] launched between 1884 and 1887, and broken up in 1921.
* {{HMS|Swift|1907}} was a unique [[flotilla leader]] that saw service in the [[First World War]]. It was sold for breaking up in 1921.
* {{HMS|Swift|G46}} was an [[S and T-class destroyer|S-class]] [[destroyer]] sunk by a mine off the Normandy beaches on 24 June 1944.
* {{HMS|Swift|P243}} was a {{sclass|Peacock|corvette|0}} patrol [[corvette]] built in 1984 and sold to the [[Irish Naval Service]] in 1988 renamed {{ship|LÉ|Orla|P41|6}}.

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==Citations==
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==References==
*Demerliac, Alain (1996) ''La Marine De Louis XVI: Nomenclature Des Navires Français De 1774 À 1792''. (Nice: Éditions OMEGA). {{ISBN|2-906381-23-3}}
*{{cite book|last=Hepper|first=David J.|year=1994|title=British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail, 1650-1859|publisher=Jean Boudriot|location=Rotherfield|isbn=0-948864-30-3}}
*{{cite book |first=Rif|last=Winfield|title=British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793&ndash;1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates|publisher=Seaforth|year=2008|isbn=978-1-86176-246-7}}

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