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Sixteen ships of the [[Royal Navy]] have borne the name '''HMS ''Fly''''':

* {{HMS|Fly|1648}} was a six-gun [[Sloop-of-war|sloop]], built in 1648 and last listed in 1652.
* {{HMS|Fly|1672}} was a six-gun [[Dogger (boat)|dogger]] captured from the Dutch in 1672 and wrecked in 1673.
* {{HMS|Fly|1694}} was a six-gun advice boat built in 1694 and wrecked in 1695.
* {{HMS|Fly|1696}} was a four-gun [[ketch]] built in 1696 and sold in 1712.
* {{HMS|Fly|1732}} was a 12-gun sloop launched in 1732 and broken up in 1750.
* {{HMS|Fly|1752}} was an eight-gun sloop launched in 1752 and sold in 1772.
* {{HMS|Fly|1763}} was a [[cutter (ship)|cutter]] purchased in 1763 and sold in 1771.
* {{HMS|Fly|1776}} was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1776 and foundered off the Newfoundland coast in 1801 or 1802.
* {{HMS|Fly|1778}} was a 14-gun cutter purchased in 1780 and captured by the French in May 1781.
* {{HMS|Fly|1804}} was an 18-gun sloop launched in 1804 and wrecked in March 1805 on the [[Carysfort Reef Light|Carysfort Reef]] in the Gulf of Florida; her crew were saved.
* {{HMS|Fly|1805}} was a 16-gun brig-sloop launched in 1805. In 1807 she participated in one major naval campaign. She was wrecked on 28 February 1812 at [[Anholt (Denmark)|Anholt Island]] in the Kattegat.
* {{HMS|Fly|1813}} was a {{Sclass|Cruizer|brig-sloop|0}} brig-sloop launched in 1813 and sold in 1828.
* {{HMS|Fly|1831}} was an 18-gun sloop launched in 1831.  She was converted into a coal hulk in 1855, after which she was renamed ''C2'' and then ''C70''.  She was broken up in 1903.
* {{HMS|Fly|1856}} was a wooden {{sclass|Albacore|gunboat (1855)|0}} screw [[gunboat]] launched in 1856 and broken up in 1862.
* {{HMS|Fly|1867}} was a {{sclass|Beacon|gunvessel}} launched in 1867 and sold in 1887.
* {{HMS|Fly|J306}} was an {{sclass|Algerine|minesweeper}} launched in 1942. She was sold to [[Iran]] in 1949 and renamed ''Palang''.  She was paid off in 1966 and stricken from the navy list in 1972.  She sank and was then broken up.

==References==
* {{Cite Colledge2006}}

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