At least three vessels have served the Royal Navy under the name Heart of Oak after the song Heart of Oak:
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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.
Fifteen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Ranger
Nine ships and one shore establishment of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Wasp, with one other government vessel using the name:
Six vessels of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMSRoyal Charlotte, after Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, consort of King George III.
Eleven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Firebrand.
Six ships of the Royal Navy and one naval base have borne the name HMS Stag:
Ten ships of the Royal Navy have been called HMS Thunder, while an eleventh was planned but never built:
HMS Swift has been the name of numerous ships of the Royal Navy:
The Speedy class brigs were a two-ship class of brig built for the Royal Navy during the later years of the American War of Independence. They survived into the French Revolutionary Wars.
At least four ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Mentor:
A number of ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Diligent.
The action of 31 May 1796 was a small action during the French Revolutionary Wars in which a Royal Navy squadron under the command of Commodore Horatio Nelson, in the 64-gun third-rate ship of the line HMS Agamemnon, captured a seven-vessel French convoy that was sailing along the coast from Menton to Vado in the Mediterranean. The British succeeded in capturing the entire convoy, with minimal casualties to themselves.
Heart of Oak, of 300 tons (bm), was launched in South Carolina in 1762. She spent most of her career as a merchant vessel, though between 1777 and 1782 she served the Royal Navy as a hired armed ship. She was last listed in 1789.
Several ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Industry.
Several ships have borne the name Duke of Clarence, named for one or another Duke of Clarence, originally Prince William, the first Duke of Clarence and St Andrews, who acceded to the throne as William IV of the United Kingdom, but later the Duke of Clarence and Avondale:
Two vessels that have served the British Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Duchess of York or Duchess of York, in honour of the Duchess of York:
At least three vessels have been named Lady Cathcart:
Several vessels have been named Paragon:
Between 1793 and 1805, five cutters served the British Royal Navy as hired armed vessels under the designation HM hired cutter Rose:
The British Admiralty acquired the mercantile Olive Branch in 1794 and commissioned her as the fire ship HMS Olive Branch. It sold her February 1802.