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Nineteen ships and a shore establishment of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Drake after Sir Francis Drake or after the drake:
Numerous Royal Navy vessels have been named HMS Dolphin after the dolphin.
Ten ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Beaver, after the animal, the beaver:
Eight ships and one shore establishment of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Badger, after the Eurasian badger:
Sixteen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Wolf or HMS Woolf, after the mammal the wolf:
Nine ships and one shore establishment of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Wasp, with one other government vessel using the name:
Sixteen ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Pelican, after the bird, while another was planned:
Eighteen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Mercury, or HMS Mercure, after the God Mercury, of Roman mythology:
Eleven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Porpoise, after the marine mammal, the porpoise:
Seven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Peterel:
Eleven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Firebrand.
Sixteen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Alert, while another was planned:
Eleven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Weazel or HMS Weazle, archaic spellings of weasel, while another was planned:
Sixteen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Viper, or HMS Vipere, after the members of the Viperidae family:
Seventeen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Dispatch, or the variant HMS Despatch:
HMS Swift has been the name of numerous ships of the Royal Navy:
Ten ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Renard, or HMS Reynard, after the French for fox, and the anthropomorphic figure of Reynard:
At least six vessels of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Netley, named for the village of Netley.
HMS Musquito was a 12-gun schooner, previously a French privateer. The Royal Navy captured her in 1799. Musquito having just been lost to capture, the navy took their capture into service as Musquito. During her brief service on the Jamaica station Musquito captured several merchantmen and a small armed vessel. The Navy sold her in 1802.
HMS Musquito was a 16-gun ship-sloop, previously the French privateer Magicienne or Petite Magicienne. The Royal Navy captured her in March 1798. After the Spanish captured Musquito in September 1798, she served in the Spanish Navy until she was broken up in 1805.
References
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