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Eleven ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Antelope, after the Antelope:
Ten ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Hermes, after Hermes, the messenger god of Greek mythology, while another was planned:
Eight vessels and one shore station of the Royal Navy were named HMS Grasshopper, named for the grasshopper, a common type of herbivorous insect.
Nine ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Meteor after the meteor, a space object.
Five ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Herald:
Several ships of the Royal Navy have carried the name HMS Orestes, after the mythical son of Agamemnon, who avenged his father's murder:
Ten ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Aetna or HMS Etna, after the volcano Etna:
Four ships and two shore establishments of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Buzzard after the bird, the buzzard:
Five or six ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Cornwallis, after Admiral Sir William Cornwallis.
Five ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Hindustan or Hindostan, after the old name for the Indian subcontinent:
Seven ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Pylades after Pylades, a character in Greek mythology:
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:
Eighteen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Fly:
Two ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Ceanothus. Ceanothus comes from the Greek word keanthos, meaning a type of thistle.
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:
Four ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Morning Star, after the poetic name for Venus:
HMS Helena has been the name of several British Royal Navy ships, and may refer to:
HMS Swift has been the name of numerous ships of the Royal Navy:
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.
