Exploration era

• Golden Hind
  Golden Hind
  The Golden Hind was an English galleon best known for its circumnavigation of the globe between 1577 and 1580, captained by Sir Francis Drake...
  
  , Sir Francis Drake
• Cook Expedition
  • HMS Discovery
    HMS Discovery (1774)
    HMS Discovery was the consort ship of James Cook's third expedition to the Pacific Ocean in 1776 - 1780. Like Cook's other ships, Discovery was a Whitby-built collier of 298 tons, originally named Diligence when she was built in 1774. Originally a brig, Cook had her changed to a full rigged ship...
    
    , Charles Clerke
    Charles Clerke
    Captain Charles Clerke RN was an officer in the Royal Navy who sailed on four voyages of exploration.Clerke started studying at the Royal Naval Academy in Portsmouth when he was 13. During the Seven Years' War he served aboard HMS Dorsetshire and HMS Bellona...
    
    
  • HMS Resolution
    HMS Resolution (Cook)
    HMS Resolution was a sloop of the Royal Navy, and the ship in which Captain James Cook made his second and third voyages of exploration in the Pacific...
    
    , Captain James Cook
    James Cook
    Captain James Cook, FRS, RN was a British explorer, navigator and cartographer who ultimately rose to the rank of captain in the Royal Navy...
    
    
• Vancouver Expedition
  Vancouver Expedition
  The Vancouver Expedition was a four-and-a-half-year voyage of exploration and diplomacy, commanded by Captain George Vancouver. The expedition circumnavigated the globe, touched five continents and changed the course of history for the indigenous nations and several European empires and their...
  
  
  • HMS Chatham
    HMS Chatham (1788)
    HMS Chatham was a Royal Navy survey brig that accompanied HMS Discovery on George Vancouver's exploration of the west coast of North America in his 1791–1795 expedition. Chatham was built by King, of Dover and launched in early 1788...
    
    , Lieutenant William Broughton
    William Robert Broughton
    William Robert Broughton was a British naval officer in the late 18th century. As a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy, he commanded HMS Chatham as part of the Vancouver Expedition, a voyage of exploration through the Pacific Ocean led by Captain George Vancouver in the early 1790s.-With Vancouver:In...
    
    
  • HMS Discovery
    HMS Discovery (1789)
    HMS Discovery was a Royal Navy ship launched in 1789 and best known as the lead ship in George Vancouver's exploration of the west coast of North America in his famous 1791-1795 expedition. She was converted to a bomb vessel in 1798 and participated in the Battle of Copenhagen. Thereafter she...
    
    , Captain George Vancouver
    George Vancouver
    Captain George Vancouver RN was an English officer of the British Royal Navy, best known for his 1791-95 expedition, which explored and charted North America's northwestern Pacific Coast regions, including the coasts of contemporary Alaska, British Columbia, Washington and Oregon...
    
    
  • HMS Daedalus
    HMS Daedalus
    Royal Naval Air Station Lee-on-Solent was one of the primary shore airfields of the Fleet Air Arm. First established as a seaplane base in 1917 during the First World War, it later became the main training establishment and administrative centre of the Fleet Air Arm...
    
     (likely not same as Daedalus below)
  • , William Broughton
    William Robert Broughton
    William Robert Broughton was a British naval officer in the late 18th century. As a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy, he commanded HMS Chatham as part of the Vancouver Expedition, a voyage of exploration through the Pacific Ocean led by Captain George Vancouver in the early 1790s.-With Vancouver:In...
    
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• HMS Daedalus
  HMS Daedalus (1826)
  HMS Daedalus was a nineteenth century warship of the Royal Navy. She was launched as a fifth-rate frigate of 46 guns in 1826, reduced to 20 guns in 1840....
  
  , Captain Wellesley

War of 1812

• HMS Blossom
  HMS Blossom (1806)
  HMS Blossom was an 18-gun Cormorant-class sloop-of-war. She was built in 1806 and is best known for the 1825–1828 expedition under Captain Beechey to the Pacific Ocean. She explored as far north as Point Barrow, Alaska, the furthest point into the Arctic any non-Inuit had been at the time...
  
  
• HMS Racoon
  HMS Racoon (1808)
  HMS Racoon, sometimes spelled HMS Raccoon, was an 18-gun ship sloop of the Cormorant Class of the Royal Navy. She was built by John Preston, of Great Yarmouth, and launched on 30 March 1808.-Service:...
  
  , Captain W. Black, Fort George Incident (Fort Astoria
  Fort Astoria
  Fort Astoria was the Pacific Fur Company's primary fur trading post in the Northwest, and was the first American-owned settlement on the Pacific coast. After a short two-year term of US ownership, the British owned and operated it for 33 years. It was the first British port on the Pacific coast...
  
  ), War of 1812
  War of 1812
  The War of 1812 was a military conflict fought between the forces of the United States of America and those of the British Empire. The Americans declared war in 1812 for several reasons, including trade restrictions because of Britain's ongoing war with France, impressment of American merchant...
  
  

Fur trade era

• HMS America
  HMS America (1810)
  HMS America was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 21 April 1810 at Blackwall Yard.In 1827 America was cut down into a fourth rate, and was broken up in 1867....
  
  
• HMS Cormorant
  HMS Cormorant
  Eleven ships and a shore establishment of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Cormorant, after the seabird, the cormorant: was a 16-gun fireship, previously the French Marchault. She was captured in 1757 and sold in 1762. was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1776 and captured by the French in 1781....
  
  
• HMS Fisgard
  HMS Fisgard (1819)
  HMS Fisgard was a 46-gun fifth rate Leda-class frigate of the Royal Navy. She spent sixty years in service on a variety of duties.-Construction and commissioning:...
  
  
• HMS Herald
  HMS Herald (1822)
  HMS Herald was an Atholl-class 28-gun sixth-rate corvette of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1821 as HMS Termagant, commissioned in 1824 as Herald and converted to a survey ship in 1845...
  
  
• HMS Modeste
  HMS Modeste
  Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Modeste: was a 64-gun third rate, previously the French Modeste. She was captured in 1759, used for harbour service from 1778 and was broken up in 1800. was a 36-gun fifth rate, previously the French Modeste. She was captured in 1793, used as a...
  
  
• HMS Pandora
  HMS Pandora
  Ten ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Pandora after the mythological Pandora. Another was planned, but the name was reassigned to another ship:* HMS Pandora , a 24-gun Porcupine-class sixth rate launched in 1779...
  
  
• HMS Providence
  HMS Providence
  HMS Providence was a sloop of the Royal Navy, famous for being commanded by William Bligh on his second breadfruit voyage between 1791 and 1794....
  
  
• HMS Starling
  HMS Starling
  Nine ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Starling after the starling: was a 12-gun gun-brig launched in 1801 and wrecked in 1804. was a 12-gun gun-brig launched in 1805 and sold in 1814. was a 10-gun cutter launched in 1817 and broken up in 1828. was a 4-gun schooner launched in 1829....
  
  
• HMS Sulphur
  HMS Sulphur
  HMS Sulphur was an 10-gun bomb vessel of the Royal Navy, famous as one of the ships in which Edward Belcher explored the Pacific coast of South America....
  
  

Colonial era

• HMS Alert
  HMS Alert (1856)
  HMS Alert was a 17-gun wooden screw sloop of the Cruizer class of the Royal Navy, launched in 1856 and broken up in 1894. She was the eleventh ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name , and was noted for her Arctic exploration work; in 1876 she reached a record latitude of 82°N.-Construction:The...
  
  
• HMS Amethyst
  HMS Amethyst
  Six ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Amethyst, whilst another was planned: was a 36-gun fifth-rate frigate, originally the French Perle captured in 1793 and wrecked in 1795. was a Penelope-class 36-gun fifth rate launched in 1799 and wrecked in 1811. was a Spartan-class 26-gun sixth rate...
  
  
• HMS Bacchante
  HMS Bacchante
  Six ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Bacchante, from "Bacchante" - the name for a priestess of the Roman god Bacchus. Yet another ship of this name was ordered but later cancelled. *HMS Bacchante - 20 gun French sixth rate, captured by HMS Endymion in 1803...
  
  
• HMS Boxer
  HMS Boxer
  Several ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Boxer, named after the competitor in a boxing match. was a launched in 1797 and sold in 1809...
  
  
• HMS Brisk
• HMS Chameleon
• HMS Charybdis
  HMS Charybdis
  Six ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Charybdis, after the sea monster Charybdis of Greek mythology.* The first Charybdis was an 18-gun brig-sloop in use from 1809 to 1819....
  
  
• HMS Constance
  HMS Constance
  Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Constance, whilst another was planned: was a 22-gun sixth rate captured from the French in 1797, but recaptured by them in 1806....
  
  
• HMS Cormorant
  HMS Cormorant
  Eleven ships and a shore establishment of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Cormorant, after the seabird, the cormorant: was a 16-gun fireship, previously the French Marchault. She was captured in 1757 and sold in 1762. was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1776 and captured by the French in 1781....
  
  
• HMS Daedalus
  HMS Daedalus
  Royal Naval Air Station Lee-on-Solent was one of the primary shore airfields of the Fleet Air Arm. First established as a seaplane base in 1917 during the First World War, it later became the main training establishment and administrative centre of the Fleet Air Arm...
  
  
• HMS Daphne
• HMS Devastation
  HMS Devastation
  Four ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Devastation. was an 8-gun bomb vessel purchased in 1804 and sold in 1816.*HMS Devastation was to have been a 14-gun bomb vessel. She was laid down in 1820, but was cancelled in 1831. was a paddle sloop launched in 1841 and broken up in 1866. was a...
  
  
• HMS Dido
  HMS Dido
  Seven ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Dido, after Dido, the legendary founder and queen of Carthage. was a 28-gun sixth-rate launched in 1784 and sold in 1817. was an 18-gun corvette launched in 1836, used as a coal hulk after 1860, and sold in 1903.*HMS Dido was to have been a...
  
  
• HMS Driver
  HMS Driver
  Two ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Driver:*HMS Driver was an 18-gun sloop launched in 1797. Beginning in 1825, she was used as a convict ship, and was broken up in 1834....
  
  
• HMS Endymion
  HMS Endymion
  Four ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Endymion after the Greek hero Endymion.*Endymion, launched in 1779, was a 44-gun Roebuck-class fifth rate. She was wrecked on a coral reef near the Turks and Caicos Islands in 1790....
  
  
• HMS Forward
  HMS Forward
  Four ships and two shore establishments of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Forward:Ships was a 12-gun gun-brig launched in 1805 and sold in 1815. was an Albacore class wooden screw gunboat launched in 1855 and sold in 1869. was a composite screw gunboat launched in 1877. She became a coal...
  
  
• HMS Ganges
  HMS Ganges (1821)
  HMS Ganges was an 84-gun second-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 10 November 1821 at Bombay Dockyard, constructed from teak...
  
   - Pacific Station
  Pacific Station
  The Pacific Station, often referred to as the Pacific Squadron, was one of the geographical divisions into which the Royal Navy divided its worldwide responsibilities...
  
   flagship
  Flagship
  A flagship is a vessel used by the commanding officer of a group of naval ships, reflecting the custom of its commander, characteristically a flag officer, flying a distinguishing flag...
  
   1857–1861
• HMS Grappler
• HMS Havannah
• HMS Hecate
  HMS Hecate
  Five ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Hecate, after Hecate, a goddess in early Greek mythology: was a 12-gun gunvessel launched in 1797 and sunk as a breakwater in 1809. was an 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop launched in 1809 and sold in 1817. was a wooden paddle sloop launched in...
  
  
• HMS Icarus
  HMS Icarus (1885)
  HMS Icarus was a Mariner-class composite screw gunvessel of 8 guns, and the third Royal Navy vessel to carry the name. She was launched in 1885 at Devonport and sold in 1904.-Construction:...
  
  
• HMS Inconstant
  HMS Inconstant
  Six ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Inconstant, whilst another was planned:*HMS Inconstant was a 36-gun fifth rate, previously the French ship Pallas. She was captured in 1778 and renamed HMS Convert in 1783...
  
  
• HMS Liffey
  HMS Liffey
  A number of ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Liffey, after the Irish river. Another was planned but renamed before entering service:...
  
  
• HMS Liverpool
  HMS Liverpool
  Seven ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Liverpool after the city of Liverpool, whilst another was planned:*HMS Liverpool was a 44-gun fifth-rate frigate, built as HMS Enterprise but renamed before being launched in 1741. She was sold in 1756 and became a privateer. She was reacquired by...
  
  
• HMS Monarch
  HMS Monarch
  Five ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Monarch. was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line, originally the French Monarque, captured in 1747 at the second battle of Cape Finisterre, and sold in 1760. Admiral John Byng was executed on board in 1757., launched in 1765, was another 74-gun...
  
  
• HMS Pandora
  HMS Pandora
  Ten ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Pandora after the mythological Pandora. Another was planned, but the name was reassigned to another ship:* HMS Pandora , a 24-gun Porcupine-class sixth rate launched in 1779...
  
  
• HMS Pearl
  HMS Pearl
  HMS Pearl may refer to:, a fourth-rate of 42 guns launched in 1708; a detachment of its crew under Lieutenant Robert Maynard killed Blackbeard in 1718; broken up in 1722, a fourth-rate of 42 guns launched in 1726 and sold in 1744, a fifth-rate of 44 guns launched in 1744 and sold in 1759, a...
  
  
• HMS Phoebe
  HMS Phoebe
  HMS Phoebe may refer to:, 36, a fifth-rate frigate launched in 1795., 51, a fourth-rate ship of the line launched in 1854., a Pearl class second class cruiser launched in 1890., an M class destroyer launched in 1916., a Dido-class light cruiser launched in 1939., a Leander class frigate launched in...
  
  
• HMS Pique
  HMS Pique (1834)
  HMS Pique was a wooden fifth rate warship of the Royal Navy, launched on 21 July 1834 at Devonport. She was of 1633 tons and had 36 guns....
  
  
• HMS Plumper
• HMS Portland
  HMS Portland
  Eight ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Portland, either after Portland Harbour in Dorset or after holders of the title of the Duke of Portland:...
  
   - Pacific Station
  Pacific Station
  The Pacific Station, often referred to as the Pacific Squadron, was one of the geographical divisions into which the Royal Navy divided its worldwide responsibilities...
  
   flagship
  Flagship
  A flagship is a vessel used by the commanding officer of a group of naval ships, reflecting the custom of its commander, characteristically a flag officer, flying a distinguishing flag...
  
   1853–1857
• HMS Pylades
  HMS Pylades
  Seven ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Pylades after Pylades, a character in Greek mythology: was an 18-gun sloop, previously the Dutch privateer Hercules. She was captured in 1781 and broken up in 1790. was a 16-gun sloop launched in 1794. She was wrecked later that year, but salvaged...
  
  
• HMS Rocket
  HMS Rocket
  Eight ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Rocket. Another was planned but never completed: was a 4-gun fireship, previously the civilian Busy. She was purchased in 1804 and sold in 1807. was an iron paddle tender launched in 1842 and broken up in 1850. was a mortar vessel launched in...
  
  
• HMS Satellite
  HMS Satellite
  Eight ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Satellite: was a 16-gun brig-sloop launched in 1806. She foundered in 1810. was an 18-gun Cruizer class brig-sloop launched in 1812 and sold in 1824. was an 18-gun sloop launched in 1826 and broken up in 1849. was a paddle gunboat launched in...
  
  
• HMS Scylla
  HMS Scylla
  Five vessels of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Scylla, after the sea monster Scylla of Greek mythology.* The first Scylla was an 18-gun brig-sloop launched in 1809 and broken up 1846....
  
  
• HMS Sparrowhawk
  HMS Sparrowhawk
  Six ships and a naval air station of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Sparrowhawk after the bird of prey, the Eurasian Sparrowhawk:*HMS Sparrowhawk was an 18-gun Cruizer class brig-sloop launched in 1807 and sold in 1841....
  
  
• HMS Sutlej
  HMS Sutlej (1855)
  HMS Sutlej was a Constance-class 50-gun fourth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy.The class was designed by Sir William Symonds in 1843, and were the largest sailing frigates built for the Navy. Sutlej was ordered from Pembroke Dockyard on 26 March 1845, laid down in August 1847 and launched on 17...
  
  
• HMS Termagant
  HMS Termagant
  Seven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Termagant, after Termagant, a god that Medieval Europeans believed Muslims worshipped, and that later came to be popularised by Shakespeare to mean a bullying person:...
  
  
• HMS Topaze
  HMS Topaze (1858)
  HMS Topaze was a 24-gun Liffey class wooden screw frigate of the Royal Navy. She was launched on 12 May 1858, at Devonport Dockyard, Plymouth. Her crew assisted in the building of the Race Rocks Lighthouse in British Columbia, Canada, and laid a bronze tablet in 1863 at the Juan Fernández Islands...
  
  
• HMS Tribune
• HMS Trincomalee
  HMS Trincomalee
  HMS Trincomalee is a Royal Navy Leda-class sailing frigate built shortly following the end of the Napoleonic Wars. She is now restored as a museum ship in Hartlepool, UK.-History:...
  
  
• HMS Virago
  HMS Virago (1842)
  HMS Virago was a 1669 ton, Royal Navy 6 gun 1st class paddle sloop launched on 25 July 1842 from Chatham Dockyard.She was sent to the Mediterranean Station arriving in November 1843 serving until 1847. Upon returning to England, she was placed into reserve. In 1851 she was sent to the Pacific Station...
  
  
• HMS Zealous
  HMS Zealous (1864)
  HMS Zealous was one of the three ships forming the second group of wooden steam battleships selected in 1860 for conversion to ironclads. This was done in response to the perceived threat to Britain offered by the large French ironclad building programme...
  
  

Provincial era

• HMS Acorn
  HMS Acorn
  Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Acorn. A seventh was planned but never completed: was a 22-gun ship hired between 1649 and 1654. was an 18-gun sloop launched in 1807 and broken up in 1819. was an 18-gun sloop launched in 1826 and wrecked in 1828.*HMS Acorn was to have been an...
  
  
• HMS Algerine
  HMS Algerine
  Eight ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Algerine: was a 10-gun schooner launched in 1810 and wrecked in 1813.*HMS Algerine was originally a 12-gun gun-brig, formerly the French Pierre Cézar. She was captured in 1808 and named . In 1814, she was converted into a 14-gun cutter under the...
  
  
• HMS Amphion
  HMS Amphion
  Seven vessels of the British Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Amphion, after the Greek hero Amphion., launched in 1780, was a 32-gun fifth-rate., launched in 1798, was a 32-gun fifth-rate., launched in 1846, was a wooden-hulled screw frigate., launched in 1883, was a Leander-class protected...
  
   (c.1890)
• HMS Arethusa
  HMS Arethusa
  Nine ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Arethusa or HMS Arethuse, after the Greek mythological nymph Arethusa who was transformed by Artemis into a fountain....
  
   (c. 1900)
• HMS Armentieres (c. 1900)
• HMS Aurora
  HMS Aurora
  Eleven ships of the Royal Navy have been called HMS Aurora or HMS Aurore, after the Roman Goddess of the dawn. was a 32-gun fifth rate, formerly the French Abenakise. She was captured in 1757 and broken up in 1763. was a 32-gun fifth rate launched in 1766 and lost to a fire in 1770. was a 28-gun...
  
  
• HMS Avoca
• HMS Bonaventure
  HMS Bonaventure
  Eight ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Bonaventure, whilst another was planned:*Bonaventure was a warship built in 1489, and gone by 1509....
  
  
• HMCS C.C.1
  HMCS CC-1
  HMCS CC-1 was a CC class submarine used by the Royal Canadian Navy. The ship was launched in 1913 in Seattle, Washington as the submarine Iquique for Chile. This deal fell through and the boat, along with , was offered to British Columbia's premier Sir Richard McBride, just nine days before the...
  
   (submarine, accompanied HMS Shearwater c. 1910)
• HMCS C.C.2
  HMCS CC-2
  HMCS CC-2 was a CC class submarine used by the Royal Canadian Navy. The ship was launched in 1913 in Seattle, Washington as the submarine Antofagasta for Chile. This deal fell through and the boat, along with , was offered to British Columbia's premier Sir Richard McBride, just nine days before the...
  
   (submarine, accompanied HMS Shearwater c. 1910)
• HMS Cameleon
  HMS Cameleon
  Seven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Chameleon, or the archaic variants HMS Cameleon or HMS Camelion, after the Chameleon:...
  
  
• HMS Canada
  HMS Canada
  Four ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Canada, after the former British colony and modern Dominion of Canada: was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line launched in 1765. She became a prison ship in 1810, and was sold broken up in 1834....
  
  
• HMS Champion
  HMS Champion
  Five ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Champion:*HMS Champion was a 24-gun sixth rate launched in 1779. She was reassigned to harbour service in 1810 and sold in 1816.*HMS Champion was an 18-gun sloop launched in 1824...
  
  
• HMS Clio
  HMS Clio
  HMS Clio can refer to any of three Royal Navy ships named after the Greek muse of history:* HMS Clio was a Cruizer-class brig-sloop launched in 1807 and broken up in 1845....
  
  
• HMS Comus
  HMS Comus
  Five ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Comus, after the Greek god of festivity, revels and nocturnal dalliances: was a 22-gun post ship launched in 1806 and wrecked in 1816....
  
  
• HMS Condor
  HMS Condor
  Two vessels of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Condor after the condor, the largest flying land birds in the Western Hemisphere.*Condor was a launched in 1876 and sold in 1889...
  
  
• HMS Constance
  HMS Constance
  Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Constance, whilst another was planned: was a 22-gun sixth rate captured from the French in 1797, but recaptured by them in 1806....
  
  
• HMS Curlew
  HMS Curlew
  Nine ships and a base of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Curlew after the bird, the curlew: was a 16-gun brig sloop launched in 1795 and foundered in 1796. was a 16-gun sloop, previously named Leander, purchased in 1803 and sold in 1810. was a 18-gun brig sloop of the Cruizer class launched...
  
  
• HMS Darling
  HMS Daring
  Seven vessels of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Daring.* HMS Daring , a 12-gun Archer-class gun-brig launched in 1804 and destroyed after running aground in 1813....
  
  
• HMS Despatch (also known as HMS Dispatch)
• HMS Egeria
  HMS Egeria (1873)
  HMS Egeria was a 4-gun screw sloop of the Fantome class launched at Pembroke on 1 November 1873. She was named after Egeria, a water nymph of Roman mythology, and was the second ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name...
  
  
• HMS Erebus
  HMS Erebus
  Five ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Erebus after Erebus, the dark region of Hades in Greek Mythology. was a rocket vessel launched in 1807, converted to an 18-gun sloop in 1808, to a fire ship in 1809, and to a 24-gun post ship in 1810. She was sold in 1819. was a 14-gun bomb vessel...
  
  
• HMS Flora
  HMS Flora
  Five ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Flora:*HMS Flora was a sloop ordered in 1755 but later cancelled.*HMS Flora was a 32-gun fifth rate, previously the French ship Vestale. She was captured in 1761 by HMS Unicorn and was scuttled in 1778 to avoid capture. She was salvaged and...
  
  
• HMS Forward
  HMS Forward
  Four ships and two shore establishments of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Forward:Ships was a 12-gun gun-brig launched in 1805 and sold in 1815. was an Albacore class wooden screw gunboat launched in 1855 and sold in 1869. was a composite screw gunboat launched in 1877. She became a coal...
  
  
• HMS Gannet
  HMS Gannet
  Nine ships and two shore establishments of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Gannet, after the seabird the Gannet:-Ships: was a 16-gun brig-sloop purchased in 1800 and sold in 1814. was an 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop launched in 1814 and sold in 1838. was a wood screw sloop launched in...
  
  
• HMS Gorgon
  HMS Gorgon
  Five ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Gorgon, after the Gorgon of Greek mythology:*HMS Gorgon was a 44-gun fifth rate launched in 1785...
  
  
• HMS Grafton
  HMS Grafton
  Nine ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Grafton, while another one was planned:*HMS Grafton was a 70-gun third-rate ship of the line launched in 1679, rebuilt in 1700, and captured by the French in 1707....
  
  
• HMS Hearty
• HMS Herald
  HMS Herald
  Five ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Herald:* The first Herald was an 18-gun ship sloop launched in 1806, re-classed as a 20-gun Sixth Rate in 1810 and 24-gun in 1817, and broken up in 1817....
  
  
• HMS Heroine
  HMS Heroine
  Four ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Heroine: was a 32-gun fifth rate launched in 1783. She was converted into a floating battery in 1803, and was sold in 1806....
  
  
• HMS Hood
  HMS Hood
  Three ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Hood after several members of the Hood family, who were notable Navy officers: was a 91-gun second-rate ship of the line, originally laid down as HMS Edgar, but renamed in 1848 and launched in 1859. She was used for harbour service from 1872 and was...
  
  
• HMS Hyacinth
  HMS Hyacinth
  Several ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Hyacinth after the hyacinth flower:*HMS Hyacinth, launched in 1829, was a sixth-rate sloop. In 1839, fighting alongside Volage, she destroyed 29 Chinese ships near Hong Kong...
  
  
• HMS Icarus
  HMS Icarus
  Four ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Icarus, after the Icarus of Greek mythology., a 10-gun brig-sloop launched in 1814, on coast guard duty in 1839, and sold 1861., a screw sloop in service from 1858 to 1875., a Mariner-class composite screw sloop in service from 1885 to 1904.,...
  
  
• HMS Imperieuse
  HMS Imperieuse
  Six ships and a training establishment of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Imperieuse. was a 40-gun fifth rate captured from the French in 1793. She was renamed HMS Unite in 1803, was on harbour service from 1832, and was broken up in 1858....
  
  , Rear Admiral Henry Palliser
  Henry Palliser
  Admiral Henry St Leger Bury Palliser was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Station.-Naval career:Palliser was appointed a Commander in the Royal Navy in 1869...
  
  
• HMS Kent
  HMS Kent
  Eleven ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Kent, after the county of Kent and the Duke of Kent.*HMS Kent was a 46-gun fourth-rate launched in 1652 as the Kentish Frigate, renamed Kent in 1660, and wrecked in 1672....
  
  
• HMS Lancaster
  HMS Lancaster
  There have been six ships of the Royal Navy named HMS Lancaster: was an 80-gun first rate built in 1694, then rebuilt and relaunched in 1722, and rebuilt for a third time to a 66-gun third rate in 1749. was an East Indiaman, fitted out as a third rate 64-gun ship in 1797. was a frigate of 1823,...
  
  
• HMS Loyal
  HMS Loyal
  Two ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Loyal: was a Laforey-class destroyer, originally built as HMS Orlando, but renamed before being launched in 1913. She was sold in 1921...
  
  
• HMS Malacca  (SS Tsu-ku-ba)
• HMS Malahat
• HMS Monarch
  HMS Monarch
  Five ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Monarch. was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line, originally the French Monarque, captured in 1747 at the second battle of Cape Finisterre, and sold in 1760. Admiral John Byng was executed on board in 1757., launched in 1765, was another 74-gun...
  
  , Admiral Bruce
• HMS Monmouth
  HMS Monmouth
  Seven ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Monmouth, after the Welsh town; the name also recognises James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, the "Black Duke":*HMS Monmouth was an 8-gun yacht launched in 1666 and sold in 1698....
  
  
• HMS Mutine
  HMS Mutine
  Ten ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Mutine:*HMS Mutine was a 14-gun cutter, previously the French ship Mutin. She was captured in 1779 and commissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS Mutine...
  
  
• HMS Myredon
• HMS Naden
• HMS New Zealand
  HMS New Zealand
  Two ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS New Zealand, after the country of New Zealand, a British Dominion, whilst a third was planned:...
  
  
• HMS Newcastle
  HMS Newcastle
  Eight ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Newcastle, after the English city of Newcastle upon Tyne:*HMS Newcastle was a 50-gun fourth-rate ship launched in 1653. She was rebuilt in 1692 and wrecked in 1703....
  
  
• HMS Nymph
  HMS Nymph
  HMS Nymph was a 14-gun Swan-class sloop of the Royal Navy launched at Chatham Dockyard on 27 May 1778. She was accidentally burnt and sank in the British Virgin Islands in 1783.-Construction and commissioning:...
  
  
• HMS Opal
  HMS Opal
  There have been two ships of the Royal Navy named HMS Opal:, an Emerald-class steam corvette launched in 1875 and sold for scrap in 1891., an Admiralty M-class destroyer launched in 1915 and wrecked in the North Sea in 1918....
  
  
• HMS Penguin
  HMS Penguin
  Seven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Penguin. A penguin is a flightless aquatic bird. was a 20-gun post ship. She was originally launched in 1731 as Dolphine, then renamed Firebrand, and finally renamed Penguin in 1757. The French captured her in 1760. was an 8-gun sloop building...
  
  
• HMS Phaeton
  HMS Phaeton
  Several ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Phaeton orPhaëton after Phaëton, the son of Helios in Greek mythology:* HMS Phaeton, a purpose-built fireship launched in 1691, was expended against the French Navy at La Hogue in 1692....
  
  
• HMS Pheasant
• HMS Rainbow
  HMS Rainbow
  Nine ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Rainbow, after the rainbow, a common meteorological phenomenon:* Rainbow was a 26-gun galleon launched in 1586. She was rebuilt in 1602, and again in 1617 to carry 40 guns. She was reconstructed about 1630 as a second rate of 54 guns. She was sunk...
  
  
• HMS Raleigh
  HMS Raleigh
  Six ships and one shore establishment of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Raleigh, after Sir Walter Raleigh:*HMS Raleigh was a 32-gun fifth rate, previously the American . She was captured in 1778 by HMS Unicorn and HMS Experiment and was commissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS Raleigh...
  
  
• HMS Reindeer
  HMS Reindeer
  HMS Reindeer was a Royal Navy wooden-hulled screw-driven sloop of the Camelion class, in service from 1866 to 1876. In 1868 she claimed Caroline Island for the British Crown....
  
  
• HMS Repulse
  HMS Repulse
  Twelve ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Repulse.*Repulse was a 50-gun galleon also known as Due Repulse, launched in 1595 and in the records until 1645.*HMS Repulse was a 32-gun fifth-rate, originally the French ship Bellone...
  
  
• HMS Rocket
  HMS Rocket
  Eight ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Rocket. Another was planned but never completed: was a 4-gun fireship, previously the civilian Busy. She was purchased in 1804 and sold in 1807. was an iron paddle tender launched in 1842 and broken up in 1850. was a mortar vessel launched in...
  
  
• HMS Royal Arthur
  HMS Royal Arthur
  One ship and one shore establishment of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Royal Arthur, in reference to the legendary King Arthur: was an Edgar class armoured cruiser launched in 1891 and sold in 1921. was a training centre established near Skegness between 1939 and 1946, and at Corsham...
  
  , Rear Admiral Henry Stephenson
  Henry Frederick Stephenson
  Admiral Sir Henry Frederick Stephenson GCVO, KCB was a Royal Navy officer, courtier, and Arctic explorer.-Early life and career:...
  
  
• HMS Scout
  HMS Scout
  Twelve ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Scout: was a 10-gun bark launched in 1577 and condemned in 1603. was a 6-gun sloop launched in 1648 and captured in 1649 by the Royalists. was a 6-gun advice boat launched in 1694 and sold in 1703. was a 16-gun brig-sloop launched in 1780 after...
  
  
• HMS Shah
  HMS Shah
  Two vessels of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Shah.* The first Shah was an iron hulled, wooden sheathed frigate launched in 1873. She was originally to be named HMS Blonde but was renamed following the visit of the Shah of Persia. On 28 May 1877 she fired the first torpedo to be used...
  
  , Admiral de Horsey
• HMS Shearwater
• HMS Sure
• HMS Swift
  HMS Swift
  HMS Swift is the name of numerous ships of the British Royal Navy: was a 10-gun ship that was launched 1697 and ran aground off Port Comfort, Virginia in 1698. was a sloop-of-war of the Swift group, built in 1704 and sold in 1719. See List of corvette and sloop classes of the Royal Navy for this...
  
  , Rear Admiral Algernon Heneage
  Algernon Heneage
  Admiral Sir Algernon Charles Fieschi Heneage GCB was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, The Nore...
  
  
• HMS Tenedos
  HMS Tenedos
  Four ships and a training establishment of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Tenedos, after the island of Tenedos:-Ships: was a 38-gun fifth rate launched in 1812. She was used as a convict hulk from 1843 and was broken up in 1875. was a wooden Eclipse class screw sloop launched in 1870...
  
  
• HMS Topaz
• HMS Torpedo Boat 39
• HMS Triumph
  HMS Triumph
  Ten ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Triumph. Another was planned, but renamed before being launched: was a 68-gun galleon built in 1561. She was rebuilt in 1596, and sold in 1618. was a 44-gun ship launched in 1623 and broken up in 1687. was a 90-gun second rate ship of the line...
  
   (1886–1887)
• HMS Turquoise
• HMS Vancouver
• HMS Victory
  HMS Victory
  HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, laid down in 1759 and launched in 1765. She is most famous as Lord Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805....
  
  
• HMS Virago
  HMS Virago
  Four ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Virago, after the term virago, to mean a strong, warlike woman: was a 12-gun gun-brig launched in 1805 and sold in 1816. was a wooden paddle sloop launched in 1842 and broken up in 1875. was a Quail-class torpedo boat destroyer launched in 1895,...
  
  
• HMS Volage
  HMS Volage
  Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Volage:*HMS Volage was a 22-gun sixth rate. She was formerly a French privateer and was captured by HMS Melampus in 1798 and broken up in 1804....
  
  
• HMS Warspite
  HMS Warspite
  Nine ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Warspite: was a 29-gun galleon, sometimes known as Warspight. She was launched in 1596 and sold in 1649. was a 70-gun third-rate ship of the line launched in 1666. She was renamed in 1721, rebuilt three times and broken up in 1771. was a 74-gun...
  
  
• HMS Wild Swan
• HMS Wolverine
  HMS Wolverine
  Six ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Wolverine, or the alternative spelling Wolverene, after the wolverine: was a 14-gun brig-sloop, previously the civilian collier Rattler. She was purchased and converted in 1798 and sunk in action in 1804. was an 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop...
  
  
• HMS Zealous
  HMS Zealous
  Three ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Zealous, whilst another had been planned, but was cancelled.*HMS Zealous, a 74 gun ship, launched in 1785 and broken up in 1816...
  
  

See also

• List of Royal Navy ships in North America
• List of ship names of the Royal Navy
• CFB Esquimalt
  CFB Esquimalt
  Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt is Canada's Pacific Coast naval base and home port to Maritime Forces Pacific and Joint Task Force Pacific Headquarters....
  
  
• List of ships in British Columbia