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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:
Seven ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Prince of Wales, after numerous holders of the title the Prince of Wales.
Two Royal Navy ships have been called HMS Endurance after Sir Ernest Shackleton's Endurance, the ship crushed in the ice of the Weddell Sea during his 1914–1915 Antarctic expedition. The ships' motto, Fortitudine Vincimus, was Shackleton's family motto.
Nine ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Albion after Albion, an archaic name for Great Britain:
Ten ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Lightning.
Ten ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Royalist:
Four Royal Navy ships have been named HMS Grenville. Vice Admiral Sir Richard Grenville was an Elizabethan sailor, explorer, and soldier:
The Royal Navy has four vessels with the name HMS Erne; the name comes from the white-tailed eagle, also known as the erne.
Three vessels and two shore establishments of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Bee, after the insect, the bee. A third ship was ordered but never completed:
HMS Waterwitch has been the name of several Royal Navy vessels:
HMS Mayfly may refer to two vessels of the British Royal Navy named after the mayfly:
Four vessels of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Ribble, after the English river:
Three ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Melita, named after the island of Malta:
Two ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Manxman, after the term for an inhabitant of the Isle of Man:
Two vessels of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Begonia after the flower.
Four ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Morning Star, after the poetic name for Venus:
Two vessels of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Mandate:
Several ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Redbreast, after the European robin.
Two vessels of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Primula:
References
- Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
