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At least five ships and one shore establishment of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Warrior:
Eight ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Dryad, after the tree nymphs of Greek mythology.
Five ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Serapis, after the god Serapis of Hellenistic Egypt.
Five ships and one shore establishment of the Royal Navy have been named HMS President, after the office of president meaning "one who presides over an assembly". In the case of the first two British ships, the name may have applied to the Lord President of the Privy Council.
Thirteen ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Surprise or HMS Surprize, including:
Nine ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Brilliant.
Several ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Nautilus, after the Greek word for a sailor, including:
Five ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Herald:
Thirteen ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Shark after the shark:
Six ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Boyne after the Battle of the Boyne, 1690.
Two vessels of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Seraph:
HMS President (1918) is a retired Flower-class Q-ship that was launched in 1918. She was renamed HMS President in 1922 and moored permanently on the Thames as a Royal Navy Reserve drill ship. In 1982 she was sold to private owners and, having changed hands twice, served as a venue for conferences and functions as well as the offices for a number of media companies. She has been moved to Chatham on the Medway in Kent since 2016, but is due to return to the capital. She had the suffix "(1918)" added to her name in order to distinguish her from HMS President, the Royal Naval Reserve base in St Katharine Docks. She is one of the last three surviving Royal Navy warships of the First World War. She is also the sole representative of the first type of purpose built anti-submarine vessels, and is the ancestor of World War II convoy escort sloops, which evolved into modern anti-submarine frigates.
HMS Waterwitch has been the name of several Royal Navy vessels:
Seven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Hazard:
Eleven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Weazel or HMS Weazle, archaic spellings of weasel, while another was planned:
Thirty-nine vessels of the Royal Navy and its predecessors have borne the name Swallow, as has one dockyard craft, one naval vessel of the British East India Company, and at least two revenue cutters, all after the bird, the Swallow:
HMS Tilbury is the name of several ships of the Royal Navy.
Nine ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Dart, after the River Dart in Devon:
Four ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Ettrick after the Scottish river, Ettrick Water.
Six ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Torch:
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.
