Two ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Goelan, the Anglicization of Goéland, the Breton word for seagull:

  • HMS Goelan was the French 14-gun sloop Goéland, which HMS Penelope and HMS Proserpine captured in 1793, and which was sold in 1794.
  • HMS Goeland (1803) was the French 16-gun brig-sloop Goéland, launched in 1801, which was part of the capitulation on 13 October 1803 at Aux Cayes; HMS Pique and HMS Pelican were listed as the captors.[1] Goelan was broken up in 1810.

Citations

  1. "No. 15670". The London Gazette. 28 January 1804. p. 133.

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