Two ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Marguerite:
Five ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Ark Royal:
Six ships that were built for the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Ocean. The name Ocean entered the list from which names are selected for British ships in 1759, when the Royal Navy captured the French ship named Océan. The British studied the French technology of this ship and admired it, but the ship had to be in bad shape before it would be replaced by a new-build.
Nine ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Albion after Albion, an archaic name for Great Britain:
Six ships and two shore establishments of the Royal Navy have been called HMS Temeraire. The name entered the navy with the capture of the first Temeraire from the French in 1759:
Ten ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Royalist:
Six ships and a naval station of the Royal Navy have been called HMS Tamar, after the River Tamar in South West England:
Five ships and a shore establishment of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Calliope after the muse Calliope in Greek mythology:
Four ships and a shore establishment of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Boadicea after Boadicea, queen of the Iceni in Roman Britain, whilst another ship was planned but never completed:
HMS Waterwitch has been the name of several Royal Navy vessels:
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:
Four ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Kempenfelt, after rear-admiral Richard Kempenfelt:
Three ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Melita, named after the island of Malta:
Ten ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Medusa, after the ancient Greek mythological figure Medusa:
Seven ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Melpomene after the Muse of Tragedy in ancient Greek mythology.
Three ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Arabis, after the flower, the Arabis.
Three Royal Navy ships have been names HMS Snapdragon, after the flower:
HMS Mallow has been the name of more than one ship of the British Royal Navy, and may refer to:
Five ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Shearwater after the shearwater, a seabird:
Four ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Carnation.
Six vessels of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Ready: