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Five ships of the Royal Navy have been called HMS Inflexible.
Ships named Inflexible have earned the following battle honours:
Eleven ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Antelope, after the Antelope:
Ten ships and one shore establishment of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Hornet, after the insect:
Ten ships of the Royal Navy have carried the name HMS Spitfire, while an eleventh was planned but renamed before entering service. All are named after the euphemistic translation of Cacafuego, a Spanish treasure galleon captured by Sir Francis Drake.
Eight ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Intrepid:
Eight ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Challenger, most famously the fifth, the survey vessel Challenger that carried the Challenger expedition from 1872 to 1876.
Eighteen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name Hunter:
Ten Royal Navy ships have been named HMS Lynx after the wild cat:
Fourteen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name Kingfisher, after the kingfisher bird:
Twelve ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Active or HMS Actif, with a thirteenth announced:
Nine ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Avenger:
Thirteen ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Shark after the shark:
Seven ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Snake:
Six ships and one shore establishment of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Raleigh, after Sir Walter Raleigh:
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:
Fifteen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name Hound:
Eleven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Cruizer or HMS Cruiser:
Seventeen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Dispatch, or the variant HMS Despatch:
Seven ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Rover:
Thirteen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Bonetta:
Six vessels of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Sylph after the air spirits known as sylphs: