HMS Content

Last updated December 28, 2021

Three ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Content:

HMS Content (1695) was a 70-gun third rate captured from the French in 1695 and hulked in 1703.
HMS Content (1708) was a storeship purchased in 1708 and sold in 1715.
HMS Content (1797) was a 12-gun gunvessel launched in 1797 and wrecked in 1799 (although there is some doubt about this vessel, which may have been a hired brig).

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Six ships of the British Royal Navy have been named Coventry, after the city of Coventry in the West Midlands.

Twelve ships and two shore establishments of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Defiance. Others have borne the name whilst serving as depot ships and tenders to the establishments:

Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Yarmouth after the Norfolk town and port of Great Yarmouth:

Nine ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Plymouth after the port of Plymouth in Devon:

Twelve ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Vesuvius or HMS Vesuve, after the volcano Mount Vesuvius. Another was planned but never completed, while doubt exists over the existence of another:

Five ships and a shore establishment of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Cambridge, after the English town of Cambridge or after one of the Dukes of Cambridge:

Five ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Romney. The origins of the name are from the town of New Romney, although it may be that the name entered the Royal Navy in honour of Henry Sydney, 1st Earl of Romney.

Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Trident or HMS Trydent, after the Trident, often associated with the Roman God of the Sea, Neptune:

Eleven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Cruizer or HMS Cruiser:

Ten ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Basilisk, after the Basilisk, a mythical lizard:

Five ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Orford, named initially after the Suffolk town of Orford, but from 1697 after Admiral Edward Russell, who was created Earl of Orford in 1697:

Three ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Carcass, named after the carcass, an early form of incendiary bomb or shell:

Five ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Harwich, after the town of Harwich. A sixth was planned, but renamed before entering service:

A number of ships of the Spanish Navy have borne the name San José in honour of Saint Joseph

Four ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Furnace:

Ten ships of the Royal Navy have been called HMS Thunder, while an eleventh was planned but never built:

Five ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Bideford, or the archaic variant HMS Biddeford, after the port town of Bideford, Devon. A sixth was planned but never built:

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