HMS Vixen

Five ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Vixen, the term for a female Fox:

HMS Vixen was a 14-gun gun-brig launched in 1801 and sold in 1815.
HMS Vixen was a wood paddle sloop launched in 1841 and sold in 1862.
HMS Vixen was an armoured composite gunboat launched in 1865 and ordered to be broken up in 1895.
HMS Vixen was a destroyer launched in 1900, reclassified as a C class destroyer in 1913 and sold in 1921.
HMS Vixen was a V class destroyer launched in 1943. She was transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy in 1944 and renamed HMCS Sioux. She was converted into a frigate in 1959 and was broken up in 1965.

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