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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.
Three ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Nereus, after the Greek deity Nereus:
Fifteen ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Enterprise while another was planned:
Eight ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Ajax after the Greek hero Ajax:
HMS Galatea, after the Galatea of mythology, has been the name of eight ships in the British Royal Navy.
Eight ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Royal Oak, after the Royal Oak in which Charles II hid himself during his flight from the country in the English Civil War:
Six ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Indefatigable:
Four ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMSCuracoa, after the island in the Caribbean Sea more usually spelled Curaçao:
Five vessels of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Scylla, after the sea monster Scylla of Greek mythology.
Six ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Bacchante, from "Bacchante" – the name for a priestess of the Roman god Bacchus. Yet another ship of this name was ordered but later cancelled.
Nine Royal Navy ships have borne the name HMS Ambuscade:
Ten ships of the Royal Navy have been called HMS Aurora or HMS Aurore, after the Roman Goddess of the dawn.
Seven ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Orpheus. Orpheus was the magical father of songs in Greek mythology.
Ten ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Berwick, after Berwick-upon-Tweed, a town on the border between England and Scotland:
Nine ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Rainbow, after the rainbow, a common meteorological phenomenon:
Fifteen ships of the French Navy have borne the name Minerve, in honour of the Greek goddess Minerva.
Sixteen ships of the French Navy have borne the name Loire, after the longest river in France:
Ten ships of the French Navy have borne the name Junon, in honour of Juno:
Several Royal Navy ships have borne the name HMS Proserpine:
Ten ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Laurel. Another was planned but never completed. The first British ship of the name served in the Commonwealth navy. All were named after the plant family Lauraceae.