Three ships of the Imperial German Navy have been named SMS Cyclop:
Nine ships of the Royal Navy have been named Mary Rose. The first is thought to have been named after Mary Tudor, sister of King Henry VIII of England, and the rose, the symbol of the Tudor dynasty. Later Mary Roses are named after the first.
Seven ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Orpheus. Orpheus was the magical father of songs in Greek mythology.
SMS Kaiser has been the name of two ships of the German Imperial Navy:
SMS Cöln has been the name of two ships of the German Imperial Navy:
SMS Dresden may refer to one of these ships in the German Imperial Navy:
There have been three German cruisers named Nürnberg :
There were two ships in the German Imperial Navy named SMS Königsberg:
Two ships of the Austro-Hungarian Navy have been named SMS Tegetthoff after the Austrian admiral Wilhelm von Tegetthoff:
Several naval ships were named Helgoland after the island of Heligoland or the Battle of Helgoland, an action during the Second Schleswig War.
Several naval ships of Germany were named Karlsruhe after the city of Karlsruhe, Germany:
Several naval ships of Germany were named Sachsen after the federal state of Saxony:
In addition to several other ships, two ships of the Imperial German Navy and one ship of the Austro-Hungarian Navy have been named SMS Nautilus, after the Greek word for a sailor.
SMS Cyclop was a Camäleon-class gunboat of the Prussian Navy that was launched in 1860. A small vessel, armed with only three light guns, Cyclop served during the three wars of German unification; during the first, the Second Schleswig War on 1864, she guarded the Prussian coastline but saw no action. She supported the army's campaign against the Kingdom of Hanover during the Austro-Prussian War of 1866, and she defended the Elbe for the duration of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871, but again took part in no battles. Badly deteriorated by 1872, she was stricken from the naval register in March that year and reconstructed into an iron-hulled gunboat. Recommissioned in 1875, she thereafter served abroad in the German colonial empire before being stricken again in 1888. She was thereafter used as a storage hulk before ultimately being broken up for scrap after 1914.
Three cruising vessels of the Prussian Navy and later Imperial German Navy have been named SMS Arcona
Several warships of the German Kaiserliche Marine have been named SMS Wolf:
Several ships of the German and Austro-Hungarian Navies have been named SMS Greif
Several ships of the Austrian, Prussian, and German navies have been named SMS Salamander: