Two ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Rothesay, after the town of Rothesay in Scotland.
Five ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Ark Royal:
Two ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS King George V, after George V, King of the United Kingdom, whilst another was planned:
Five ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Victorious.
Two ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Londonderry, after the city of Londonderry in Northern Ireland.
Seacat was a British short-range surface-to-air missile system intended to replace the ubiquitous Bofors 40 mm gun aboard warships of all sizes. It was the world's first operational shipboard point-defence missile system, and was designed so that the Bofors guns could be replaced with minimum modification to the recipient vessel and (originally) using existing fire-control systems. A mobile land-based version of the system was known as Tigercat.
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:
Rothesay is the principal town on the Isle of Bute, Scotland.
Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Yarmouth after the Norfolk town and port of Great Yarmouth:
Nine ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Plymouth after the port of Plymouth in Devon:
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:
HMS Rothesay was the lead ship of the Rothesay or Type 12M class of anti-submarine frigates of the British Royal Navy. She was commissioned in 1960 and scrapped in 1988.
Nine ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Falmouth, after the town of Falmouth:
Eight ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Lowestoft, or the archaic HMS Lowestoffe, after the Suffolk town of Lowestoft:
Seven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Fowey, either after the Cornish town of Fowey, or the River Fowey which runs through it, whilst another two were planned:
Seven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name Weymouth, after the English town of Weymouth, whilst another two were planned:
Seven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Hastings, after the town of Hastings. Another two were planned, but renamed before entering service:
Eight ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Satellite:
A number of ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Liffey, after the Irish river. Another was planned but renamed before entering service:
Two ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Rhyl, after the town of Rhyl in Wales:
Four ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Brighton, after the seaside town of Brighton.