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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.
Four ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Tigress, after the female tiger:
Ten ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Hardy, most of the later ones have been named for Vice Admiral Sir Thomas Masterman Hardy (1769–1839), captain of HMS Victory during the Battle of Trafalgar:
Fifteen ships of the British Royal Navy have carried the name HMS Tiger after the feline tiger, with a number of others provisionally bearing the name at various stages in their construction:
Five ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Furious:
Nineteen ships and a shore establishment of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Drake after Sir Francis Drake or after the drake:
Ten ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Beaver, after the animal, the beaver:
Sixteen ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Lively. Another was planned, but renamed before being launched:
Eight ships of Britain's Royal Navy have been named HMS Eclipse:
Seven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Rosario, after the Spanish word Rosario, meaning rosary:
Eight ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Defender:
Nine ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Rapid:
Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Griper:
Ten ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Contest:
Eight ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Algerine:
Eight vessels of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Manly.
Seventeen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Dispatch, or the variant HMS Despatch:
Four ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Hyaena, after the Hyena, a family of carnivorous mammals. Two others were planned but either commissioned under another name or cancelled.
There have been twelve ships of the Royal Navy that have been named HMS Flying Fish, after the Flying Fish.
Ten ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Renard, or HMS Reynard, after the French for fox, and the anthropomorphic figure of Reynard:
Five ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Grappler:
Five vessels named HMS Cracker have served the Royal Navy. A sixth was ordered but the order was cancelled.