HMS Espiegle

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Eight ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Espiegle

• {{HMS|Espiegle|1793}} was a 16-gun French brig-sloop, launched at Bayonne in 1788. {{HMS|Nymphe|1780|2}} and {{HMS|Circe|1785|2}} captured her off Ushant on 30 November 1793.{{London Gazette|issue=13601|page=1100|date=7 December 1793}} She was sold in 1802.{{sfnp|Winfield|2008|p=283}}{{cite web|url=http://www.nmm.ac.uk/upload/pdf/Warship_Histories_Vessels_i.pdf|title=NMM, vessel ID 366391|work=Warship Histories, vol i|publisher=National Maritime Museum|access-date=30 July 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20110802041558/http://www.nmm.ac.uk/upload/pdf/Warship_Histories_Vessels_i.pdf|archive-date=2 August 2011|df=dmy-all}}
• {{HMS|Espiegle|1794}} was a French 12-gun aviso launched in 1793 at Saint-Malo. {{HMS|Iphigenia|1780|2}} captured her in the Antilles on 16 March 1794.{{efn|Both Demerliac and Winfield confuse the captor of this vessel with the captors of Espiegle (1793).{{sfnp|Demerliac|1996|p=83|loc=#544}}{{sfnp|Winfield|2008|p=336}} The National Maritime Museum database and Winfield and Roberts have the correct attribution.{{cite web|url=http://www.nmm.ac.uk/upload/pdf/Warship_Histories_Vessels_i.pdf|title=NMM, vessel ID 366392|work=Warship Histories, vol i|publisher=National Maritime Museum|access-date=30 July 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20110802041558/http://www.nmm.ac.uk/upload/pdf/Warship_Histories_Vessels_i.pdf|archive-date=2 August 2011|df=dmy-all}}{{cite web|url=http://www.nmm.ac.uk/upload/pdf/Warship_Histories_Vessels_i.pdf|title=NMM, vessel ID 369032|work=Warship Histories, vol i|publisher=National Maritime Museum|access-date=30 July 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20110802041558/http://www.nmm.ac.uk/upload/pdf/Warship_Histories_Vessels_i.pdf|archive-date=2 August 2011|df=dmy-all}}{{sfnp|Winfield|Roberts|2015|p=206}}}} She was commissioned under Lieutenant John Fishley. The Navy sold her in 1800.{{sfnp|Winfield|Roberts|2015|p=206}}
• {{HMS|Espiegle|1804}} was a 16-gun sloop, formerly the civilian vessel Wimbury (or Wembury), launched at Barnstaple in 1803. The Admiralty purchased her in 1804 and sold her in 1811 for breaking up.
• {{HMS|Espiegle|1812}} was an 18-gun {{sclass|Cruizer|brig-sloop|1}} launched in 1812 and sold in 1832.
• {{HMS|Espiegle|1844}} was a 12-gun brig launched in 1844 and sold in 1861.
• {{HMS|Espiegle|1880}} was a {{sclass|Doterel|sloop|0}} composite screw sloop launched in 1880. She became a boom vessel in 1899, was renamed HMS Argo in 1904 and was sold in 1921.
• {{HMS|Espiegle|1900}} was a {{sclass|Cadmus|sloop|1}} launched in 1900 and sold in 1923.
• {{HMS|Espiegle|J216}} was an {{sclass|Algerine|minesweeper}} launched in 1942 and broken up in 1967.

A gun-boat named Espiegle served in the navy's Egyptian campaign between 8 March and 2 September 1801. Her officers and crew qualified for the clasp "Egypt" to the Naval General Service Medal, which the Admiralty issued in 1847 to all surviving claimants.{{London Gazette|issue=21077|pages=791–792|date=15 March 1850}}