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This article includes a list of ships with the same or similar names. If an internal link for a specific ship led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ship article, if one exists.
Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Albatross, after the seabird, the albatross. A seventh was planned but never completed:
Ten ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Hermes, after Hermes, the messenger god of Greek mythology, while another was planned:
Seven ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Kangaroo, after the kangaroo.
Six ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Foxhound. A seventh was planned but never completed:
Sixteen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Wolf or HMS Woolf, after the mammal the wolf:
Sixteen ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Pelican, after the bird, while another was planned:
Nine ships and a base of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Curlew after the bird, the curlew:
Seven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Chameleon, or the archaic variants HMS Cameleon or HMS Camelion, after the Chameleon:
Nine ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Ariel, possibly after the archangel Ariel in Judeo-Christian mysticism, but certainly influenced by Shakespeare's "airy spirit" of the same name:
Twelve ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Star or HMS Starr:
Eleven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Weazel or HMS Weazle, archaic spellings of weasel, while another was planned:
Thirty-nine vessels of the Royal Navy and its predecessors have borne the name Swallow, as has one dockyard craft, one naval vessel of the British East India Company, and at least two revenue cutters, all after the bird, the Swallow:
Nine ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Rapid:
Seventeen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Dispatch, or the variant HMS Despatch:
Nine ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Zephyr after Zephyrus, the Greek god of the west wind:
Five ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Cynthia. A sixth was planned but never completed:
Several ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Fairy:
Sixteen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Cygnet, the name given to a young swan:
Six vessels of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Sylph after the air spirits known as sylphs: