title: HMS Scorpion (1746)
text: # HMS Scorpion (1746)
  
  HMS Scorpion was a 14-gun two-masted Merlin-class sloop of the Royal Navy, built by Wyatt and Major at Bucklers Hard on the Beaulieu River in Hampshire, England and launched on 8 July 1746.
  
  She foundered in the Irish Sea in September 1762.
  
  