HMS Daphne

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At least six ships of the Royal Navy, have been named HMS Daphne after the naiad Daphne:

• {{HMS|Daphne|1776}}, was a {{sclass|Sphinx|post ship}} that the French Navy captured in the Channel in December 1794. {{HMS|Anson|1781|6}} recaptured her in December 1797. She was sold in May 1802.
• HMS Daphne was the Dutch {{ship|Dutch sloop|Sireene|1786|2}}, launched in 1786, captured in 1796 at the capitulation of Saldanha Bay, and brought into service as a 24-gun post ship. She was converted to a prison ship in 1798 and renamed HMS Laurel; she was sold in 1821.
• {{HMS|Daphne|1806}} was a {{sclass|Banterer|post ship}} that served primarily in the Baltic and that the Navy sold in 1816. She then became the mercantile Daphne and made one voyage transporting convicts to New South Wales and later trading with India; she was last listed in 1823
• {{HMS|Daphne|1838}}, an 18-gun corvette
• {{HMS|Daphne|1866}}, an {{sclass|Amazon|sloop|0}} steam sloop
• {{HMS|Daphne|1888}}, a {{sclass|Nymphe|sloop|0}} composite screw sloop
• {{HMS|Daphne|1915}}, an {{sclass|Acacia|sloop|0}} sweeping sloop