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Sixteen ships and two shore establishments of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Fox, after the fox.
Six Royal Navy ships have been called HMS Hero:
Several ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Nautilus, after the Greek word for a sailor, including:
The following ships of the Royal Navy were assigned the name Calypso, after Calypso, a sea nymph in Greek mythology:
Eight ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Advice:
Fifteen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Ranger
Three ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Nile, after the Battle of the Nile in 1798:
Seven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Peacock:
Fifteen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name Hound:
Eighteen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Fly:
Eight ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Siren, Syren or Sirene, after the Sirens of Greek mythology:
Seven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Harrier:
Sixteen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Lark or HMS Larke, after the bird, the lark:
Eleven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Weazel or HMS Weazle, archaic spellings of weasel, while another was planned:
Seven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Recruit:
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:
Eight ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Satellite:
There have been twelve ships of the Royal Navy that have been named HMS Flying Fish, after the Flying Fish.
Three ships of the Royal Navy and one of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary have borne the name Resource:
Seven ships of the Royal Navy have been named Pigmy:
References
- ↑ Grocott (1997), p. 406.
- 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.
- Grocott, Terence (1997). Shipwrecks of the Revolutionary & Napoleonic Eras. Caxton Editions. ISBN 1 84067 164 5.
