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Six ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Zebra, after the Zebra.
The Royal Navy has used the name Comet no fewer than 18 times:
Several ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Nautilus, after the Greek word for a sailor, including:
Ten Royal Navy ships have been named HMS Lynx after the wild cat:
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:
Ten ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Beaver, after the animal, the beaver:
Ten ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Scourge :
Sixteen ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Pelican, after the bird, while another was planned:
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:
Eight ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Sparrow, after the sparrow:
Sixteen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Alert, while another was planned:
Nine ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Racehorse:
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:
Twelve ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Scout:
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:
Seven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Victor:
Sixteen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Hope:
Ten ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Renard, or HMS Reynard, after the French for fox, and the anthropomorphic figure of Reynard:
References
- Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
