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Fifteen ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Enterprise while another was planned:
Several ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Boxer, named after the competitor in a boxing match.
Seven ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Kangaroo, after the kangaroo.
Ten ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Royalist:
Seven vessels of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Arab:
Nine ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Linnet after the linnet, a bird of the finch family:
Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Rifleman:
Five ships of the Royal Navy and an air station of the Royal Naval Air Service have borne the name HMS Landrail, another name for the bird more commonly named a corn crake:
Fifteen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Ranger
Sixteen ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Success, whilst another was planned:
Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Philomel, after Philomela, a figure in Greek mythology:
Eight ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Humber, after the Humber, an estuary in eastern England, whilst another was planned:
Ten ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Serpent, after the synonym for snake, whilst another two were planned, and one appears to have been a spurious report:
Nine ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Racehorse:
Seven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Penguin. A penguin is a flightless aquatic bird.
Five ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Wrangler. A sixth was planned but never completed:
Three ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Alban. Another was planned but never completed:
Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Griffon, an alternative spelling of the legendary creature, the Griffin. Another ship was planned, but later cancelled and reordered from a different dockyard:
Seven vessels of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Espoir, after the French word for "hope":
HMS Tartarus was a paddle steamer gunvessel, the name ship of her class, built for the Royal Navy during the 1830s.
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.
