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Nine ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Albion after Albion, an archaic name for Great Britain:
Six ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Achilles, after the Greek hero Achilles. Four others, mostly prizes, have had the French spelling of the name, Achille.
Several ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Bruiser or HMS Bruizer.
Six ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Amethyst, whilst another was planned:
Seven vessels of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Arab:
Seven ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Fearless:
Two ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Donovan:
Empire Battleaxe was a British ship of the Second World War and as HMS Donovan in service with the Royal Navy just after the Second World War. Built as a Type C1-S-AY1 Landing Ship, Infantry named Cape Berkeley she then saw merchant service as Empire Battleaxe before being commissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS Empire Battleaxe and then Donovan. After she was decommissioned she returned to merchant service as Empire Battleaxe and was returned to the USA where she was renamed Cape Berkeley once again. A proposed sale in 1948 to China and renaming to Hai C fell through and she was scrapped in 1966.
Sixteen ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Pelican, after the bird, while another was planned:
A number of ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name Bombay, after the Indian city of Bombay, now Mumbai. Among them were:
Eight ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Sparrow, after the sparrow:
Eleven ships and a shore establishment of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Cormorant, after the seabird, the cormorant:
Three ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Ormonde:
Two ships of the Royal Navy has borne the name HMS Anzac, after the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC). Another was planned but never completed:
Four ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Ettrick after the Scottish river, Ettrick Water.
Several ships and shore establishments of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Medina, after the River Medina on the Isle of Wight:
There have been two ships of the Royal Navy named HMS Rosalind, named after the protagonist in William Shakespeare's As You Like It:
Three ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Thruster:
Two ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Trouncer :
At least three ships of the Hellenic Navy have borne the name Nafkratousa :
References
- ↑ Dittmar, F.J.; Colledge, J.J. (1972). British Warships 1914–1919. London: Ian Allan. p. 175
