High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Ardent was a wooden Alecto-class paddle sloop of the Royal Navy. She was the fourth ship to use the name Ardent. She was launched on 12 February 1841 at Chatham. She was scrapped in 1865. One of the ship`s company, Gunner John Robarts, was awarded the Victoria Cross for arson of food stores in the Crimean War.