HMS Discovery

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Eleven ships of the Royal Navy and a reserve shore establishment of the Canadian Navy have borne the name HMS/HMCS Discovery, while ships of other branches have also used the name:

HMS Discovery (1600) was a discovery vessel in service between 1600 and 1620.
HMS Discovery (1651) was a 20-gun ship purchased in 1651 and burnt in 1655.
HMS Discovery (1692) was a 6-gun ketch launched in 1692 and broken up in 1705.
HMS Discovery (1719) was a discovery sloop lost in the Arctic in 1719.
HMS Discovery (1741) was a 6-gun storeship purchased in 1741 and sold in 1750.
HMS Discovery (1774) was an 8-gun discovery vessel launched in 1774 as the civilian collier Diligence. She was acquired in 1775, and accompanied HMS Resolution on Captain James Cook's third voyage of exploration from 1776 to 1780. She became a dockyard transport in 1781 and was broken up in 1797.
HMS Discovery (1789) was a 10-gun sloop launched and purchased in 1789. She was commanded by Captain George Vancouver on his voyage of exploration from 1791 to 1795. She was converted to a bomb vessel in 1799, a convict ship in 1818 and was broken up in 1834.
HMS Discovery (1800) was a survey vessel in service in 1800 and sold in 1828.
HMS Discovery was to have been a wood screw gunvessel. She was ordered in 1861 but was cancelled in 1863.
HMS Discovery (1874) was a wood screw storeship, formerly the civilian Bloodhound, purchased in 1874. She was commanded by Captain George Nares during the British Arctic Expedition between 1875 and 1876. She was sold in 1902.
HMS Discovery was a purpose-built survey ship launched in 1901. She was commanded by Captain Robert Falcon Scott during the Discovery Expedition to the Antarctic in 1901, and was sold in 1905. She was re-designated RRS (Royal Research Ship) Discovery in 1923, repurchased in 1929 as a training ship, and was handed over for preserving as a museum ship in 1979.
HMCS Discovery, the Vancouver stone frigate of the Canadian Forces Naval Reserve, established as a volunteer half-company of the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve in 1924 and commissioned as Discovery in 1941.

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Several vessels of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Nonsuch, presumably named after Nonsuch Palace:

Eighteen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name Hunter:

Nineteen ships and a shore establishment of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Drake after Sir Francis Drake or after the drake:

Sixteen ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Success, whilst another was planned:

Sixteen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Wolf or HMS Woolf, after the mammal the wolf:

Five or six ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Cornwallis, after Admiral Sir William Cornwallis.

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:

Eleven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Star or HMS Starr:

Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Racoon, after the raccoon:

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:

Several ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name Resolute. Another was planned but never completed:

Twenty-two ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Fortune:

Eleven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Assistance:

HMS Discovery was a wood-hulled screw expedition ship, and later storeship, formerly the sealing ship Bloodhound built in 1873 in Dundee. She was purchased in 1874 for the British Arctic Expedition of 1875–1876 and later served as a store ship. Discovery was sold in 1902, reverting to the name Bloodhound and her previous sealing trade. The ship was wrecked in Newfoundland in 1917.

Eighteen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Hind or HMS Hynd:

HMS Phoenix was a 6-gun steam paddle vessel of the Royal Navy, built in a dry dock at Chatham in 1832. She was reclassified as a second-class paddle sloop before being rebuilt as a 10-gun screw sloop in 1844–45. She was fitted as an Arctic storeship in 1851 and sold for breaking in 1864.

Sixteen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Cygnet, the name given to a young swan:

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↑ "Volume 2, Part 1: Extant Commissioned Ships". National Defence and the Canadian Forces. 7 July 2006. Retrieved 10 February 2021.

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[1] "Volume 2, Part 1: Extant Commissioned Ships". National Defence and the Canadian Forces. 7 July 2006. Retrieved 10 February 2021.

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