HMS Hibernia

Four ships and one shore establishment of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Hibernia after the Latin name of Ireland:HMS Hibernia was to have been a 74-gun third rate. She was renamed HMS Prince of Wales in 1763 and launched in 1765. HMS Hibernia (1804) was a 110-gun first rate launched in 1804. She became the base flagship at Malta in 1855, and was broken up in 1902. HMS Hibernia was a base ship, launched in 1863 as the ironclad frigate HMS Achilles. She became a base ship under the name HMS Hibernia in 1902, was renamed HMS Egmont in 1904, HMS Egremont in 1916 and HMS Pembroke in 1919, before being sold for scrapping in 1923. HMS Hibernia (1905) was a King Edward VII-class pre-dreadnought battleship launched in 1905 and sold in 1921. HMS Hibernia (shore establishment) is the Northern Irish base of the Royal Naval Reserve, commissioning in Lisburn in 2010.

HMS Culloden

Five Royal Navy ships have had the name of HMS Culloden, after the battle of Culloden which took place in Scotland in 1746 and saw the defeat of the Jacobite rising.HMS Culloden was renamed before her launch in 1747 to HMS Prince Henry. HMS Culloden

HMS Dublin

Five ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Dublin, after the Irish city of Dublin:HMS Dublin (1709) was a 10-gun yacht launched in 1707 and broken up in 1752. HMS Dublin was to have been a 10-gun yacht. She was renamed HMS Dorset (1753) before

HMS Hedingham Castle

Two British Royal Navy warships have been named Hedingham Castle, after Hedingham Castle in Essex. They were both Castle-class corvettes built during the Second World War.HMS Hedingham Castle (K491) was transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy before

HMS Donovan

Two ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Donovan:HMS Donovan (1918) was a 24-class sloop launched in 1918 and sold in 1922. HMS Donovan was a Landing Ship, Infantry, built as Cape Berkeley, but renamed HMS Empire Battleaxe before being

HMS Lichfield

Three ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Lichfield, after the town of Lichfield in Staffordshire.HMS Lichfield (1658) was a 20-gun fireship, originally the Royalist ship Patrick. She was captured in 1658 by the Parliamentarians and renamed

HMS Captain

Seven ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Captain:HMS Captain (1678) was a 70-gun third rate launched in 1678. She was rebuilt in 1708 and again in 1722, and converted to a hulk in 1739, finally being broken up in 1762. HMS Captain (1743) was

HMS Jason

Twelve ships of the Royal Navy have been called HMS Jason, after the Greek mythological character Jason:HMS Jason (1673) was a 6-gun fireship purchased in 1673 and sold in 1674. HMS Jason (1747) was a 44-gun fifth rate captured from the French in

HMS Parthian

Four ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Parthian, after the ancient Iranic inhabitants of the Parthian Empire. Another was planned but never completed:HMS Parthian (1808) was a 10-gun Cherokee-class brig-sloop launched in 1808 and wrecked on

HMS Nerissa

Three vessels of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Nerissa:HMS Nerissa (1916) was an Yarrow M-class destroyer launched at Yarrow in February 1916 and sold in November 1921 at Newport. HMS Nerissa was an N-class destroyer launched on 7 May

Commission and Others v Kadi

Commission and Others v Kadi was a case in the European Court of Justice, an appeal from the earlier case Kadi v Commission (T-85/09) in the General Court. The Court of Justice, by dismissing the appeal, confirmed the General Court’s annulment of