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Five ships and a training establishment of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Eaglet: * was an 8-gun ketch built in 1655 and sold in 1674. * was a 10-gun ketch launched in 1691 and captured in 1693 by the French off the Isle of Arran. * was a paddle vessel, hired between 1855 and 1857. * was launched in 1804 as Eagle and renamed whilst a training ship in 1918. She was destroyed by fire in 1926 and the wreck was sold in 1927. * was a sloop launched as Sir Bevis in 1918, renamed Irwell in 1923 and Eaglet in 1926. She was broken up in 1971. * was founded in 1904 and moved onshore after the scrapping of the last named ship in 1971.
