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HMS Surprise or Surprize is the name of several ships. These include:
Eight ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Jackal, after the predatory mammal, the jackal:
Fifteen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Ranger
Five ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Eclair:
Sixteen ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Pelican, after the bird, while another was planned:
Sixteen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Alert, while another was planned:
Nine ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Racehorse:
Eleven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Weazel or HMS Weazle, archaic spellings of weasel, while another was planned:
Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Racoon, after the raccoon:
Eight ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Espiegle
Sixteen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Viper, or HMS Vipere, after the members of the Viperidae family:
The first HMS Epervier, sometimes spelled HMS Epervoir, was the French ex-naval brick-aviso and then privateer Épervier, launched in 1788. The British captured her in 1797 and registered her in 1798 as an 18-gun brig-sloop of the Royal Navy. The Navy never commissioned her and she was sold in 1801.
Nine ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Zephyr after Zephyrus, the Greek god of the west wind:
At least four vessels of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Belette.
HMS Mullett was a Royal Navy 5-gun Philomel-class wooden screw gunvessel launched in 1860. She served on the coast of West Africa and on the North America and West Indies Station before being sold in 1872 at Hong Kong for mercantile use. As the sailing ship Formosa she sailed in the Far East before being converted to a magazine in Melbourne.
Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Sandwich, either after the English seaside town of Sandwich, or one of the holders of the title Earl of Sandwich, particularly Vice-Admiral Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich, or First Lord of the Admiralty John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich. A seventh ship was planned, but never completed:
HMS Swift has been the name of numerous ships of the Royal Navy:
There have been twelve ships of the Royal Navy that have been named HMS Flying Fish, after the Flying Fish.
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.
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- ↑ Demerliac (1996), p. 104, #720.
