HMS Coquette
Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Coquette. A seventh was ordered but never completed:
- HMS Coquette was a 28-gun sixth rate captured from the French in 1783 and in service in 1785.
- HMS Coquette was a 20-gun sixth rate launched in 1807 and sold in 1817.
- HMS Coquette was to have been an 18-gun corvette. She was ordered in 1835 and cancelled in 1851.
- HMS Coquette was a wooden Vigilant-class screw gunvessel launched in 1855 and broken up in 1868.
- HMS Coquette was an Ariel-class composite screw gunboat launched in 1871 and sold in 1889.
- HMS Coquette was a D-class destroyer launched in 1897 and sunk by a mine from a German submarine in 1916 (22 casualties).
- HMS Coquette was an Algerine-class minesweeper launched in 1943 and scrapped in 1958.
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