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Royal Navy The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom. It is a component of His Majesty's Naval Service, and its officers hold their commissions from the King of the United Kingdom, King. Although warships were used by Kingdom ...

Naval ships

Lists of active ships

* :Naval ships of the United Kingdom *

List of active Royal Navy ships The Royal Navy is the principal naval warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Its assets include both commissioned warships and non-commissioned vessels. As of December 2024, there are 62 Ship commissioning, commissioned and active ...

* List of active ships of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary *

List of active Royal Marines military watercraft List of active Royal Marines military watercraft is a list of landing craft and other watercraft in service with the Royal Marines. It consists of a varied fleet of landing craft, patrol vessels and special forces watercraft (I.e. mini submarines ...

* List of active ships of Serco Marine Services

List of ships by name

List of ship names of the Royal Navy This is an alphabetical list of the of all ships that have been in service with the Royal Navy, or with predecessor fleets formally in the service of the Kingdom of England or the Commonwealth of England. The list also includes fictional vess ...

** List of ship names of the Royal Navy (A) ** List of ship names of the Royal Navy (B) ** List of ship names of the Royal Navy (C) ** List of ship names of the Royal Navy (D-F) ** List of ship names of the Royal Navy (G-H) ** List of ship names of the Royal Navy (I-L) ** List of ship names of the Royal Navy (M-N) ** List of ship names of the Royal Navy (O-Q) ** List of ship names of the Royal Navy (R-T) ** List of ship names of the Royal Navy (U-Z) * List of Royal Fleet Auxiliary ship names

Lists of ships by type

* List of aircraft carriers of the Royal Navy *

Aircraft maintenance carriers of the Royal Navy The Royal Navy built three aircraft maintenance carriers for its Fleet Air Arm before and during World War II. The Abyssinia Crisis of 1934–35 demonstrated to the British Admiralty, Admiralty that it needed a depot ship to support the aircraf ...

* List of amphibious warfare ships of the Royal Navy * List of amphibious warfare ships of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary * List of battlecruisers of the Royal Navy * List of pre-dreadnought battleships of the Royal Navy * List of dreadnought battleships of the Royal Navy * List of bomb vessels of the Royal Navy * List of corvette and sloop classes of the Royal Navy *

List of cruiser classes of the Royal Navy This is a list of cruisers of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom from 1877 (when the category was created by amalgamating the two previous categories of frigate and corvette) until the last cruiser was decommissioned more than a century later. ...

List of destroyer classes of the Royal Navy This is a list of destroyer classes of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom, organised chronologically by entry into service. Torpedo boat destroyers In 1913, the surviving members of the large heterogeneous array of older 27-knot and 30-kn ...

* List of early warships of the English Navy *

List of escort carriers of the Royal Navy The escort aircraft carrier, also called a "jeep carrier" or "baby flattop" in the USN or "Woolworth Carrier" by the RN, was a small and slow type of aircraft carrier used by the Royal Navy in the Second World War. They were typically half the ...

List of fireships of the Royal Navy Fireships served in the Royal Navy over a period of several centuries. The earliest fireships – ships filled with combustible and flammable materials and explosives and sent into lines of enemy ships to attempt to set them on fire – were sm ...

* List of frigate classes of the Royal Navy ** Type system of the Royal Navy *

List of gunboat and gunvessel classes of the Royal Navy This is a list of gunboat and gunvessel classes of the Royal Navy. For gun-brigs see List of gun-brigs of the Royal Navy. Steam gunboats Wooden paddle gunboats (Indian service) * Wooden paddle gunboats (Great Lakes) Iron paddle gunboat ...

* List of gun-brigs of the Royal Navy * List of hospitals and hospital ships of the Royal Navy * List of ironclads of the Royal Navy *

List of mine countermeasure vessels of the Royal Navy Active ships * s ** HMS Ledbury (M30), HMS ''Ledbury'' (M30) ** HMS Cattistock (M31), HMS ''Cattistock'' (M31) ** HMS Brocklesby (M33), HMS ''Brocklesby'' (M33) ** HMS Middleton (M34), HMS ''Middleton'' (M34) ** HMS Chiddingfold (M37), HMS '' ...

* List of miscellaneous ships of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary *

List of monitors of the Royal Navy This is a list of monitor (warship), monitors of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom. Key ''Humber''-class The ''Humber''-class monitors were three river monitors under construction for the Brazilian Navy in Britain in 1913, all three were ...

* List of breastwork monitors of the Royal Navy * List of patrol vessels of the Royal Navy *

List of replenishment ships of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary This is a list of replenishment ships of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary, the naval auxiliary fleet of the United Kingdom. Active Tankers * Tide (II)-class fast fleet tanker (2017) ** ** '' ''Tiderace' (in extended readiness - uncrewed rese ...

List of royal yachts of the United Kingdom There have been 83 royal yachts of the monarchy of the United Kingdom since the restoration of the monarchy in 1660. King Charles II had 25 royal yachts, while five were simultaneously in service in 1831. Merchantmen or warships have occasio ...

* List of seaplane carriers of the Royal Navy * List of ships of the line of the Royal Navy *

List of submarines of the Royal Navy This is a list of Royal Navy submarines, arranged chronologically. Submarines that are currently active and commissioned are shown below in bold. Pre-First World War * ** , launched: 2 October 1901, decommissioned: 5 November 1913 ** ** ** ...

List of submarine classes of the Royal Navy This is a list of submarine classes of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom. Dates of construction given. Petrol-electric Diesel-electric * D class — 8 boats, 1908–1912 * E class — 58 boats, 1912–1916 * F class — 3 boats, 191 ...

* List of support ships of the Royal Navy * List of survey vessels of the Royal Navy * List of torpedo boat classes of the Royal Navy * Trawlers of the Royal Navy *

List of requisitioned trawlers of the Royal Navy (WWII) This is a list of civilian trawlers requisitioned by the Royal Navy for use in World War II. HMT stands for "His Majesty's Trawler". Requisitioned trawlers, whalers and drifters; A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P ...

* List of warships of the Scots Navy

Aircraft and helicopters

* List of aircraft of the Royal Naval Air Service * List of aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm * List of active United Kingdom military aircraft *

List of British airships Airship development in the United Kingdom lagged behind that of Germany and France. The first British designed and built airship was constructed by Stanley Spencer (aeronaut), Stanley Spencer, and on 22 September 1902 was flown from Crystal Pal ...

Anti-aircraft weapons and equipment

Holman Projector The Holman Projector was an anti-aircraft warfare, anti-aircraft weapon used by the Royal Navy during World War II, primarily between early 1940 and late 1941. The weapon was proposed and designed by Holman Bros Ltd, Holmans, a machine tool manuf ...

– retired

Naval anti-aircraft guns

30mm DS30M Mark 2 Automated Small Calibre Gun The 30mm DS30M Mark 2 is a ship-protection system made by MSI-Defence Systems consisting of a 30mm Mark 44 Bushmaster II cannon on an automated mount. It was designed to defend Royal Navy frigates from fast inshore attack craft armed with short- ...

* 4.7 inch QF Mark IX & XII – retired * Bofors 40mm gun – retired *

Oerlikon 20mm cannon The Oerlikon 20 mm cannon is a series of autocannons based on an original German Becker Type M2 20 mm cannon design that appeared very early in World War I. It was widely produced by Oerlikon Contraves and others, with various models emplo ...

* Ordnance QF 3-pounder Vickers – retired *

Phalanx CIWS The Phalanx CIWS () is an automated gun-based close-in weapon system to defend military watercraft automatically against incoming threats such as aircraft, missiles, and small boats. It was designed and manufactured by the General Dynamics Co ...

QF 2-pounder naval gun The 2-pounder gun, officially the QF 2-pounder ( QF denoting "quick firing") and universally known as the pom-pom, was a British autocannon, used as an anti-aircraft gun by the Royal Navy.British military of the period traditionally denoted s ...

– retired * QF 3-inch 20 cwt – retired *

QF 4 inch Mk V naval gun The QF 4 inch Mk V gunMk V = Mark 5. Britain used Roman numerals to denote Marks (models) of ordnance until after World War II. Mark V indicates this was the fifth model of QF 4-inch gun. was a Royal Navy gun of World War I which was adapted ...

– retired *

QF 4 inch Mk XVI naval gun The QF 4 inch Mk XVI gunMk XVI = Mark 16. Britain used Roman numerals to denote marks (models) of ordnance until after World War II. Mark XVI indicates this was the sixteenth model of QF 4 inch gun. was the standard British Commonwealth naval ant ...

– retired * QF 4.5-inch Mk I - V naval gun – retired * QF 4.7 inch Mk VIII naval gun – retired * Vickers .50 machine gun – retired

Surface-to-air anti-aircraft missiles

* Fairey Stooge – retired * Seacat – retired * Sea Ceptor * Sea Dart – retired * Seaslug – retired * Sea Viper * Sea Wolf

Surface-to-air anti-aircraft rockets

Unrotated projectile The Unrotated Projectile (UP) was a British anti-aircraft and ground-bombardment rocket of the Second World War. The original 7-inch version was developed for the Royal Navy by Alwyn Crow of the Projectile Development Establishment of the Mini ...

- retired

Anti-aircraft equipment

Fuze Keeping Clock The Fuze Keeping Clock (FKC) was a simplified version of the Royal Navy's High Angle Control System analogue fire control computer. It first appeared as the FKC MkII in destroyers of the 1938 ,''Tribal Class Destroyers'', Hodges, p. 27 while lat ...

* Gyro rate unit * HACS * Hazemeyer gun mount * Pom-Pom director

Anti-submarine weapons and equipment

Anti-submarine missiles

Ikara Ikara is a town and local government area (LGA) in Kaduna State, northern Nigeria, located around (85 km) north-east from the city of Zaria Zaria is a List of Nigerian cities by population, metropolitan city in Nigeria, located at ...

- retired

Anti-submarine mortars

* BL 7.5-inch naval howitzer - retired * Fairlie Mortar – retired *

Hedgehog A hedgehog is a spiny mammal of the subfamily Erinaceinae, in the eulipotyphlan family Erinaceidae. There are 17 species of hedgehog in five genera found throughout parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa, and in New Zealand by introduction. The ...

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Limbo The unofficial term Limbo (, or , referring to the edge of Hell) is the afterlife condition in medieval Catholic theology, of those who die in original sin without being assigned to the Hell of the Damned. However, it has become the gene ...

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Squid A squid (: squid) is a mollusc with an elongated soft body, large eyes, eight cephalopod limb, arms, and two tentacles in the orders Myopsida, Oegopsida, and Bathyteuthida (though many other molluscs within the broader Neocoleoidea are also ...

– retired

Anti-submarine sonar and equipment

* List of British Asdic systems * Sonar 2076 * Sonar 2087

Depth charges

* Mk 11 depth charge

Nuclear bombs 1950s-1990s

* WE.177 - retired *

Red Beard is a 1965 Japanese ''jidaigeki'' film co-written, edited, and directed by Akira Kurosawa, in his last collaboration with actor Toshiro Mifune. Based on Shūgorō Yamamoto's 1959 short story collection, '' Akahige Shinryōtan'', the film takes p ...

- retired

Homing torpedoes

* 18" Mark 30 torpedo - retired *

Stingray Stingrays are a group of sea Batoidea, rays, a type of cartilaginous fish. They are classified in the suborder Myliobatoidei of the order Myliobatiformes and consist of eight families: Hexatrygonidae (sixgill stingray), Plesiobatidae (deepwate ...

Tigerfish Tigerfish can refer to fish from various families, and derives from official and colloquial associations of these with the tiger (''Panthera tigris''). However, the primary species designated by the name "tigerfish" are African and belong to the ...

- retired

Guided missiles

Air-to-air missiles

AIM-7 Sparrow The AIM-7 Sparrow (Air Intercept Missile) is an American medium-range semi-active radar homing air-to-air missile operated by the United States Air Force, United States Navy, United States Marine Corps, and various other air forces and navies. Sp ...

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AIM-9 Sidewinder The AIM-9 Sidewinder is a short-range air-to-air missile. Entering service with the United States Navy in 1956 and the Air Force in 1964, the AIM-9 is one of the oldest, cheapest, and most successful air-to-air missiles. Its latest variants rema ...

ASRAAM The Advanced Short Range Air-to-Air Missile (ASRAAM), also known by its United States designation AIM-132, is an imaging infrared homing air-to-air missile, produced by MBDA UK, that is designed for close-range combat. It is in service in the ...

AIM-120 AMRAAM The AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM) ( ) is an American Beyond-visual-range missile, beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile capable of all-weather day-and-night operations. It uses active transmit-receive radar guidance ...

* Firestreak – retired * Red Top – retired

Air-to-surface missiles

* AGM-12 Bullpup – retired *

Martlet A martlet in English heraldry is a mythical bird without feet that never roosts from the moment of its drop-birth until its death fall; martlets are proposed to be continuously on the wing. It is a compelling allegory for continuous effort, expr ...

SS.11 The SS.11 is a French manual command to line of sight Wire-guided missile, wire-guided Anti-tank guided missile, anti-tank missile manufactured by Nord Aviation. It is also available in the air-to-ground version, AS.11, which featured a stabil ...

– retired * SS.12/AS.12 – retired * Sea Skua – retired *

Sea Eagle A sea eagle or fish eagle (also called erne or ern, mostly in reference to the white-tailed eagle) is any of the birds of prey in the subfamily Haliaeetinae of the bird of prey family Accipitridae. Ten extant species exist, currently described w ...

– retired * Sea Venom

Land attack missiles

Tomahawk A tomahawk is a type of single-handed axe used by the many Native Americans in the United States, Indian peoples and nations of North America, traditionally resembles a hatchet with a straight shaft. Etymology The name comes from Powhatan langu ...

Anti-ship missiles

Exocet The Exocet () is a French-built anti-ship missile whose various versions can be launched from Warship, surface vessels, Submarine, submarines, Helicopter, helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft. Etymology The missile's name was given by M. Guil ...

– retired *

Harpoon A harpoon is a long, spear-like projectile used in fishing, whaling, sealing, and other hunting to shoot, kill, and capture large fish or marine mammals such as seals, sea cows, and whales. It impales the target and secures it with barb or ...

* Red Angel – retired

Submarine-launched ballistic missiles

UGM-27 Polaris The UGM-27 Polaris missile was a two-stage solid-fueled nuclear-armed submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM). As the United States Navy's first SLBM, it served from 1961 to 1980. In the mid-1950s the Navy was involved in the Jupiter missi ...

– Retired. See the ET.317 nuclear warhead,

Chevaline Chevaline () was a system to improve the penetrability of the warheads used by the UK Polaris programme, British Polaris nuclear weapons system. Devised as an answer to the improved Soviet Union, Soviet A-35 anti-ballistic missile system, anti-b ...

and the

Polaris (UK nuclear programme) The United Kingdom's Polaris programme, officially named the British Naval Ballistic Missile System, provided its first submarine-based Nuclear weapons and the United Kingdom, nuclear weapons system. Polaris was in service from 1968 to 1996. P ...

* Trident II D5 missile - See the

Trident (UK nuclear programme) Trident, also known as the Trident nuclear programme or Trident nuclear deterrent, covers the development, procurement and operation of Nuclear weapons and the United Kingdom, nuclear weapons in the United Kingdom and their means of delivery. It ...

Unmanned aerial vehicles

Boeing Insitu ScanEagle The Boeing Insitu ScanEagle is a small, long-endurance, low-altitude unmanned surveillance and reconnaissance aerial vehicle built by Insitu, a subsidiary of Boeing, and is used for reconnaissance. The ScanEagle was designed by Insitu based o ...

* Target Technology Ltd Imp

Target drones

* Airspeed Queen Wasp * Curtiss Queen Seamew * De Havilland DH.82 Queen Bee * Northrop MQM-36 Shelduck * Miles Queen Marinet * Northrop BQM-74 Chukar

Mine disposal systems

* Paravane

Remotely operated underwater vehicles

* Seafox drone

Unguided rockets

Air-to-surface rockets

RP-3 The RP-3 (from Rocket Projectile 3 inch) was a British air-to-ground rocket (weapon), rocket projectile introduced during the Second World War. The "3 inch" designation referred to the nominal diameter of the rocket motor tube. The use of a warhe ...

* SNEB

Naval artillery weapons and equipment

Naval guns

* 4.5 inch Mark 8 naval gun

Naval artillery equipment

* Admiralty Fire Control Table - retired * Vickers range clock - retired

Torpedoes

British 18 inch torpedo There have been a number of 18-inch (45cm) torpedoes in service with the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom. These have been used on ships of the Royal Navy and aircraft of both the Fleet Air Arm and Royal Air Force, while Royal Navy surface ships a ...

British 21 inch torpedo There have been a number of 21-inch (53.3cm) torpedoes in service with the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom. Torpedoes of 21-inch calibre were the largest torpedoes in common use in the RN. They were used by surface ships and submarines; aircraft ...

* British 24.5 inch torpedo *

Spearfish torpedo The Spearfish torpedo (formally Naval Staff Target 7525) is the heavy torpedo used by the submarines of the Royal Navy. It can be guided by Torpedo#Radio and wire guidance, wire or by acoustic homing, autonomous active or passive sonar, and pro ...

* Whitehead torpedo – retired

Naval radars

* see

List of World War II British naval radar This page is a List of World War II United Kingdom, British naval radar. Nomenclature These sets were initially numbered as wireless telegraph (w/t) sets, but a distinguishing prefix of "2" was soon added. Metric sets were numbered in the 28x an ...

* Type 965 radar *

Type 984 radar Type 984 was a Royal Navy radar system introduced in the mid-1950s, designed by the Admiralty Signals and Radar Establishment. Type 984 was a 3D S band system used for both ground controlled interception (GCI) and as a secondary early warnin ...

* Type 997 Artisan radar * Type 1022 Radar *

S1850M The S1850M is a long-range radar with a digital antenna array for wide area search in elevation. The S1850M is manufactured by Thales and BAE Systems Integrated System Technologies (formerly AMS UK). It is a modified version of the Thales Neder ...

* SAMPSON

Uniforms

Royal Navy ranks, rates, and uniforms of the 18th and 19th centuries Royal Navy ranks, rates, and uniforms of the 18th and 19th centuries were the original effort of the Royal Navy to create standardized rank and insignia system for use both at shore and at sea. History Prior to the 1740s, Royal Navy office ...

Uniforms of the Royal Navy The uniforms of the Royal Navy have evolved gradually since the first uniform regulations for officers were issued in 1748. The predominant colours of Royal Navy uniforms are navy blue and white. Since reforms in 1997 male and female ratings hav ...

Royal Marines

List of equipment of the Royal Marines This is a list of equipment of the Royal Marines currently in use. It includes personal equipment, small arms, combat vehicles, snowmobiles and watercraft. The Royal Marines are a highly specialised and adaptable light infantry force, a part of Hi ...

* Uniforms of the Royal Marines

Equipment by era

* World War II naval weapons of the United Kingdom * List of British naval forces military equipment of World War II * * List of Royal Navy military equipment of the Cold War

Other equipment

{{See also, British Armed Forces communications and information systems * Corsham Computer Centre * NATO Submarine Rescue System * Submarine Command System