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Seven ships of the [[Royal Navy]] have borne the name '''HMS ''Adder''''', after the [[Vipera berus|snake]]:

* {{HMS|Adder|1782}} was an 8-gun [[galley]] purchased in 1782 and sold in 1787.
* {{HMS|Adder|1797}} was a 12-gun [[gunboat]] launched in 1797 and broken up in 1805.
* {{HMS|Adder|1805}} was a 12-gun [[brig|gun-brig]] launched in 1805 but captured by French forces the following year having run aground on the French coast.
* {{HMS|Adder|1813}} was a 12-gun gun-brig launched in 1813 and transferred to [[Her Majesty's Coastguard|Coastguard]] service in 1826. She was wrecked in 1832.
* {{HMS|Adder|1814}} was a [[cutter (ship)|cutter]] launched in 1814 as HMS ''Seagull''. She was renamed HMS ''Adder'' in 1817 and remained in service until 1825.
* {{HMS|Adder|1826}} was a wooden paddle [[packet ship]], launched in 1826 as the [[General Post Office|GPO]] ship ''Crocodile''. She was transferred to the Navy in 1837 and was sold in 1870.
* {{HMS|Adder|1905}} was a tender transferred from the [[War Department (UK)|War Department]] in 1905. She was renamed HMS ''Attentive'' in 1919, and was sold in 1923.

==References==
* {{Cite Colledge2006}}

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