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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.
Three ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Whitby, after the Yorkshire seaside town of Whitby:
Eleven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Vanguard, meaning the forefront of an action or movement:
Twelve ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Repulse:
Eight ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Intrepid:
Four ships and three shore establishments of the Royal Navy have been named HMS St Vincent:
Six ships of the Royal Navy, have been named HMS Leander after the Greek hero Leander:
Seven ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Juno after the Roman goddess Juno:
Ten ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Pandora after the mythological Pandora. Another was planned, but the name was reassigned to another ship:
Three ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Adamant:
Ten ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Scarborough, after the town of Scarborough:
Seven ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Orpheus. Orpheus was the magical father of songs in Greek mythology.
Seven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Termagant, after Termagant, a god that Medieval Europeans believed Muslims worshipped, and that later came to be popularised by Shakespeare to mean a bullying person:
Eleven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Porpoise, after the marine mammal, the Porpoise:
Eleven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Cruizer or HMS Cruiser:
Seven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Chameleon, or the archaic variants HMS Cameleon or HMS Camelion, after the Chameleon:
Eleven ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Providence. Another was intended to bear the name:
Two ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Blackpool, after the Lancashire seaside town of Blackpool:
Two ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Tenby, after the Pembrokeshire seaside town of Tenby:
Two ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Eastbourne, after the East Sussex seaside town of Eastbourne:
Several ships have been named Majestic: