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Eleven ships of the [[Royal Navy]] have borne the name '''HMS ''Crescent''''':
* {{HMS|Crescent|1643}} was a 14-gun ship purchased in 1643.  She was captured in 1648 by the [[Cavalier|Royalists]] and wrecked in 1649.
* {{HMS|Crescent|1692}} was a 6-gun [[fireship]], formerly of the French navy.  She was captured in 1692 by {{HMS|Dover|1654|6}} and sold in 1698.
* {{HMS|Crescent|1758}} was a 32-gun [[fifth rate]].  She was formerly the French [[privateer]] ''Rostan'', which [[HMS Neptune (1683)|HMS ''Torbay'']] captured in 1758.  ''Crescent'' was sold in 1777.
* {{HMS|Crescent|1779}} was a 28-gun [[sixth rate]] launched in 1779, that the French captured off [[Cadiz]] in 1781.
* {{HMS|Crescent|1784}} was a 36-gun fifth rate launched in 1784 and wrecked off [[Jutland]] in 1808.
* {{HMS|Crescent|1810}} was a 38-gun fifth rate launched in 1810, reassigned to harbour service in 1840 and sold in 1854.
* {{HMS|Crescent|1854}} was a wood paddle tender purchased in 1854, and sold in 1855.
* {{HMS|Crescent|1892}} was an {{sclass|Edgar|cruiser|0}} first class [[cruiser]] launched in 1892.  She was sold in 1921.
* HMS ''Crescent'' was previously the {{sclass|Canopus|battleship}} {{HMS|Glory|1899|6}}, renamed ''Crescent'' when she became a depot ship in 1920, before being sold in 1922.
* {{HMS|Crescent|1931}} was a [[C and D-class destroyer|C-class]] [[destroyer]] launched in 1931, but transferred to the [[Royal Canadian Navy]] in 1937 and renamed {{HMCS|Fraser|H48|6}}.  She was sunk in 1940 in a collision with {{HMS|Calcutta|D82|6}}.
* {{HMS|Crescent|R16}} was a {{sclass2|C|destroyer (1943)|0}} destroyer launched in 1944 and transferred on loan to the Royal Canadian Navy in 1945.  She was bought outright by the Canadians in 1951 and converted into a [[frigate]] in 1956.  She was paid off in 1970 and broken up in 1971.

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