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Numerous Royal Navy ships have been named HMS Lynx after the wild cat:

• Lynx, a 10 gun sloop launched at Rotherhithe on 11 March 1761, and sold on 14 February 1777.
• Lynx, a 16 gun sloop launched at Rotherhithe on 10 March 1777. Converted to a hospital ship in July 1780, the ship was sold on 1 May 1783.
• Lynx, a 16 gun sloop launched at Gravesend on 14 February 1794 and sold on 24 April 1813.
• Lynx, was to have been an 18 gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop. Originally ordered on 6 September 1812 as HMS Pandora, the ship was renamed to HMS Lynx on 24 September. However construction was cancelled on 9 June 1818.
• Lynx, a Cherokee class brigantine launched at Portsmouth Dockyard on 2 September 1833, and broken up in December 1845.
• Lynx, a wooden screw gunvessel launched at Blackwall on 22 July 1854 and sold on pp19 May]] 1862.
• Lynx, a composite screw gunvessel launched at Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast on 24 April 1868, and sold in December 1888.
• Lynx, a destroyer launched at Laird’s shipyard on 24 January 1894 and sold on 10 April 1912 at Preston.
• Lynx, a destroyer launched on 20 March 1913 and sunk by a mine in the Moray Firth on 9 August 1915.
• Lynx, a Type 41 (or Leopard)-class frigate launched on 12 January 1955 and sold to Bangladesh in 1982, and renamed Abu Bakr.

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