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Six ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Swinger:

• HMS Swinger (1794), a 14-gun (later 12-gun) _Conquest_-class gun brig launched at Limehouse in 1794 and sold in 1802.
• HMS Swinger (1798), a 6-gun gunvessel purchased locally in Honduras in 1798, and whose fate in unknown.
• HMS Swinger (1804), a 12-gun _Archer_-class gun brig launched at Topsham in 1804 and broken up in June 1812.
• HMS Swinger (1813), a 12-gun _Bold_-class gun brig launched at Bridport in 1813, converted to a mooring lighter in 1829 and broken up in 1877.
• HMS Swinger (1855), a 4-gun _Dapper_-class gunboat launched at Northfleet in 1855 and broken up in 1864.
• HMS Swinger (1872), a 4-gun _Ariel_-class gunboat launched at Pembroke Dockyard in 1872, hulked in 1895 and sold in 1924.
• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.