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This article includes a list of ships with the same or similar names. If an internal link for a specific ship led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ship article, if one exists.
One ship of the Royal Navy has borne the name HMS Kentish, while the name Kentish was also borne by a warship of the Commonwealth of England's navy; the name was a variation on the English county of Kent:
Several ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Resolution. However, the first English warship to bear the name Resolution was actually the first rate Prince Royal, which was renamed Resolution in 1650 following the inauguration of the Commonwealth, and continued to bear that name until 1660, when the name Prince Royal was restored. The name Resolution was bestowed on the first of the vessels listed below:
Romney may refer to:
Eleven ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Kent, after the county of Kent and the Duke of Kent.
Eleven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Superb, or HMS Superbe:
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:
Fifteen ships and two shore establishments of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Ferret, after the domestic mammal, the Ferret:
Five ships and three shore establishments of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Caledonia after the Latin name for Scotland:
Six ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Colchester, after the town of Colchester:
Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Pluto, after Pluto, a God of Roman mythology:
Two ships and a training establishment of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Vernon, possibly after Admiral Edward Vernon:
Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name Assurance. A seventh was planned but never completed:
Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Folkestone or the archaic HMS Folkeston, after the town of Folkestone in Kent:
Twenty-two ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Falcon. They are named after an exceptionally fast bird of prey.
Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS St Lawrence:
Five ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Tigris, after the river Tigris, in modern-day Iraq. Another was planned but never completed:
Seven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Sheerness, after the town of Sheerness in Kent, once home to one of the navy's dockyards:
Three ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name Mackerel, after the Mackerel, a name given to a number of species of fish:
Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Sampson or HMS Samson, after the biblical hero Samson.
Three vessels of the British Royal Navy have borne the name Sophie: