HMS Antelope

Eleven ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Antelope, after the Antelope:


 * ENGLISH SHIP Antelope was a galleass carrying between 38 and 44 guns. She was launched in 1546, rebuilt three times and was burned by parliamentarian sailors at Hellevoetsluis in 1649.
 * ENGLISH SHIP Antelope was a 56-gun third-rate great frigate launched in 1651 and wrecked in 1652.
 * HMS Antelope (1653) was a 40-gun fourth-rate frigate launched in 1653 as Preston and renamed in 1660. She was sold in 1693.
 * HMS Antelope (1703) was a 54-gun fourth rate launched in 1703. She was rebuilt in 1741 and was sold in 1783.
 * HMS Antelope (1784) was a 14-gun sloop purchased in 1784, and lost in a hurricane later that year.
 * HMS Antelope (1802) was a 50-gun fourth rate launched in 1802. She was used as a troopship from 1818, was placed on harbour service from 1824 and was broken up in 1845.
 * HMS Antelope was a 14-gun schooner, the ex-Spanish prize Antelope captured and purchased in 1808 and taken into service as HMS Firefly (1808). She was later renamed to Antelope, and was broken up in 1814.
 * HMS Antelope (1846) was an Antelope-class sloop iron paddle sloop launched in 1846 and sold in 1883.
 * HMS Antelope (1893) was an Alarm-class torpedo gunboat launched in 1893. She was used for harbour service from 1910 and was sold in 1919.
 * HMS Antelope (H36) was an A-class destroyer (1929) destroyer launched in 1929 and sold in 1946.
 * HMS Antelope (F170) was a Type 21 frigate launched in 1972 and bombed and sunk in the Falklands War in 1982.

Battle honours
Ships named Antelope have earned the following battle honours:
 * Armada, 1588
 * Lowestoft, 1665
 * Four Days' Battle, 1666
 * Orfordness, 1666
 * Sole Bay, 1672
 * Marbella, 1705
 * Aquilon, 1757
 * Atlantic, 1939−44
 * Bismarck, 1941
 * Malta Convoys, 1942
 * North Africa, 1942−43
 * Falkland Islands, 1982