HMS Sparrowhawk explained

Six ships and a naval air station of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Sparrowhawk after the bird of prey, the Eurasian sparrowhawk:

• was an 18-gun launched in 1807 and sold in 1841.
• was a wooden screw gunboat launched in 1856 and sold in 1872; later a merchant barque, then coal lighter, name unchanged.
• was a survey schooner purchased in 1877. She was originally named Falcon, was HMS Lark on being purchased, but was renamed HMS Sparrowhawk three months later. She was sold in 1889.
• was a launched in 1895 and wrecked in 1904.
• was an launched in 1912. She was sunk at the Battle of Jutland on 1 June 1916 after colliding with .
• was an launched in 1918 and scrapped in 1931.
• HMS Sparrowhawk was the name given to Royal Naval Air Station Hatston, a naval air station of the Fleet Air Arm during World War II .