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HMS Goshawk

Five ships and a shore establishment of the Royal Navy have borne the name '*HMS *Goshawk''''', after the bird of prey, the goshawk. A sixth ship was renamed before being launched:

Ships

was a 16-gun brig-sloop launched in 1806 and wrecked in 1813.
was an 18-gun brig-sloop launched in 1814 and shipped to Canada for completion. She was found to be unsuitable and was sold in 1815.
HMS Goshawk was to have been a 12-gun brig-sloop but she was renamed in 1845 before being launched in 1847.
was an wooden screw gunboat launched in 1856 and broken up in 1869.
was a composite screw gunboat launched in 1872. She was hulked in 1902 and sold c. 1906.
was an launched in 1911 and sold in 1921.

Shore establishment

was a Royal Naval Air Station at Trinidad, commissioned in 1940 and paid off in 1946. Also known as RNAS Piarco, it is now Piarco International Airport.

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