HMS Cockburn

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Several vessels of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Cockburn for Admiral Sir George Cockburn:

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Seven ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Prince of Wales, after numerous holders of the title the Prince of Wales.

Eight ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Pickle:

Nine ships and a naval base of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Neptune after the Roman god of the ocean:

Thirteen ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Surprise or HMS Surprize, including:

A number of ships Royal Navy have been named HMS Echo, after the Echo of Greek mythology

Nine ships of the Royal Navy and one of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary have been named Argus, after Argus, the hundred-eyed giant of mythology:

Eight ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Royal George after various members of the House of Hanover. A ninth was renamed before being launched:

Three vessels of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Seal:

Eight vessels of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Express, or Express:

Two ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Viking, after the Vikings, whilst another Viking was in service with the Royal New Zealand Navy:

HMS Drury was a Captain-class frigate, originally commissioned to be built for the United States Navy as an Evarts-class destroyer escort. Before she was finished in 1942, she was transferred to the Royal Navy under the terms of Lend-Lease, and saw service during the Second World War. She has been the only ship of the Royal Navy to be named Drury, after Captain Thomas Drury, commander of HMS Alfred in the West Indies in 1795.

Four ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Charon, after Charon, the boatman to Hades across the River Styx in Greek Mythology:

Ten ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Confiance:

Eight ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Spey, after the River Spey, in Scotland:

Four ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Cuckoo, after the cuckoo, a family of birds:

Four ships of the Royal Navy have either borne the name HMS Samarang or were intended to bear the name, after the port of Samarang, the site of HMS Psyche's capture of several Dutch vessels there in 1807.

The third HMS Hoste (K566), ex-Mitchell, was a Captain-class frigate of the Evarts-class of destroyer escort, originally commissioned to be built for the United States Navy. Before she was finished in 1943, she was transferred to the Royal Navy under the terms of Lend-Lease, and saw service during the World War II from 1943 to 1945.

Three vessels of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Utile. In addition, a fourth vessel was to have borne the name, but the name-change never occurred.

Several vessels have been named Leander for one the protagonists in the story of Hero and Leander in Greek mythology.

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