Four ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Cheerful, after the adjective describing a happy and optimistic state:
The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by the English kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years War against the Kingdom of France. The modern Royal Navy traces its origins to the early 16th century; the oldest of the UK's armed services, it is known as the Senior Service.
- HMS Cheerful (1806), a 12-gun cutter, launched in 1806 and sold in 1816.
- HMS Cheerful (1856), a wooden Cheerful-class gunboat launched at Deptford in 1856 and broken up in 1869.
- HMS Cheerful (1897) a three funnel, 30-knot destroyer launched in 1897 and sunk in 1917 by a mine off the Shetland Islands.
- HMS Cheerful (J388) an Algerine-class minesweeper, launched in 1944 and broken up in 1963.
The Cheerful-class gunboat was a class of twenty gunboats built for the Royal Navy in 1855 for use in the Crimean War.
A gunboat is a naval watercraft designed for the express purpose of carrying one or more guns to bombard coastal targets, as opposed to those military craft designed for naval warfare, or for ferrying troops or supplies.
HMS Cheerful was a 30-knot, three-funnel torpedo boat destroyer built by Hawthorn Leslie. She was ordered by the Royal Navy under the 1896–1897 Naval Estimates, launched in 1898 and saw action during World War I. She was mined off the Shetland Islands in 1917 and sank with the loss of 44 officers and men.
