Ships of the Royal Navy collects vessels under the names they carried. HMS Thrasher runs from a small gunbrig to a nineteenth-century gunboat, a destroyer, and a T-class submarine. HMS Ardent leads through several eras, including Jutland, Norway, and the Falklands. Hero likewise spans 74-gun sailing ships, a screw second rate, a turret ship, and a destroyer. Dates and vessel types distinguish successive ships sharing the same name.
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Follow a Royal Navy ship name across centuries
An interactive look-up session shows how a ship-name reference can trace repeated names across very different vessels and wars.