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Royal Navy The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against Fr ...

Naval ships

Lists of active ships

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List of active Royal Navy ships The Royal Navy is the principal naval warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. As of October 2022, there are 72 commissioned ships in the Royal Navy. Of the commissioned vessels, twenty-two are major surface combatants (two aircraft ...

List of ships of Serco Marine Services List of ships of Serco Marine Services is a list of active ships operated by Serco Marine Services in support of Her Majesty's Naval Service (incl. Royal Navy, Royal Marines) and the Royal Fleet Auxiliary. The ships ''Kingdom of Fife'' and '' ...

List of ships by name

List of ship names of the Royal Navy This is an alphabetical list of the ''names'' 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 ficti ...

List of ship names of the Royal Navy (A) This is a list of Royal Navy ship names starting with A. A * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Abondance (1780 ship), ''Abondance'' * * HMS Abraham, ''Abraham'' * HMS Abrams Offering, ''Abrams O ...

List of ship names of the Royal Navy (B) This is a list of Royal Navy ship names starting with B. B * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * HMS Bahama, ''Bahama'' * * HMS Bala, ''Bala'' * * * * * * HMS Ballarat, ''Ballarat'' * * * HMS Balsam, ''Bals ...

List of ship names of the Royal Navy (C) This is a list of Royal Navy ship names starting with C. C * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ...

List of ship names of the Royal Navy (D-F) This is an alphabetical list of the ''names'' 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 ficti ...

** List of ship names of the Royal Navy (G-H) **

List of ship names of the Royal Navy (I-L) This is an alphabetical list of the ''names'' 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 ficti ...

List of ship names of the Royal Navy (M-N) This is an alphabetical list of the ''names'' 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 ficti ...

** List of ship names of the Royal Navy (O-Q) **

List of ship names of the Royal Navy (R-T) This is an alphabetical list of the ''names'' 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 ficti ...

List of ship names of the Royal Navy (U-Z) This is an alphabetical list of the ''names'' 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 ficti ...

List of Royal Fleet Auxiliary ship names The following is a list of Royal Fleet Auxiliary ship names by name in alphabetical order, both past and present. Many of the names have been re-used over the years and thus represent more than one ship. __NOTOC__ A * RFA ''Abadol'' * RFA ' ...

Lists of ships by type

List of aircraft carriers of the Royal Navy The following is a list of fleet aircraft carriers of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom. There are two carriers, HMS ''Queen Elizabeth'' and HMS ''Prince of Wales'', currently in service. Key Fleet carriers HMS ''Argus'' HMS ''Hermes ...

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 Admiralty that it needed a depot ship to support the aircraft carriers in acti ...

List of amphibious warfare ships of the Royal Navy This is a list of amphibious warfare ships of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom. Active ships * Landing platform dock (LPD) ** ''Albion'' ** ''Bulwark'' - extended readiness Decommissioned ''Ocean'' class Landing platform helicopter s ...

List of amphibious warfare ships of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary {{Use British English, date=December 2016 This is a list of amphibious warfare ships of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary of the United Kingdom. Active *Bay class landing ship dock (auxiliary), Bay class **RFA Mounts Bay, RFA ''Mounts Bay'' **RFA Cardi ...

List of battlecruisers of the Royal Navy The battlecruiser was the brainchild of Admiral Sir John ("Jacky") Fisher, the man who had sponsored the construction of the world's first "all big gun" warship, . He visualised a new breed of warship with the armament of a battleship, but fas ...

List of pre-dreadnought battleships of the Royal Navy The British Royal Navy built a series of pre-dreadnought battleships as part of a naval expansion programme that began with the Naval Defence Act 1889. These ships were characterised by a main battery of four heavy guns—typically guns—in ...

List of dreadnought battleships of the Royal Navy This is a list of dreadnought battleships of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom. In 1907, before the revolution in design brought about by of 1906, the United Kingdom had 62 battleships in commission or building, a lead of 26 over France ...

List of bomb vessels of the Royal Navy Bomb vessels served in the Royal Navy over a period of about 150 years. The concept entered the Navy in the 1680s, based on French designs and usage, and remained in service until the mid-19th century. Bomb vessels were designed to bombard ene ...

List of corvette and sloop classes of the Royal Navy This is a list of sixth rate, corvette and sloop classes of the Royal Navy. In the Age of Sail ships were divided into six ranks in 1626 to govern pay rates for officers in 1626. Until the 1840s when steam power was being introduced this sys ...

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 {{Royal Navy ship types 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 ...

* 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 A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby unio ...

Type system of the Royal Navy The Type system is a classification system used by the British Royal Navy to classify surface escorts by function. The system evolved in the early 1950s, when the Royal Navy was experimenting with building single-purpose escort vessels with specifi ...

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 gunboa ...

List of gun-brigs of the Royal Navy A gun-brig was a small brig-rigged warship that enjoyed popularity in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, during which large numbers were purchased or built. In general these were vessels of under 200 tons burthen, and thus smaller than ...

List of hospitals and hospital ships of the Royal Navy ''HMHS'' is an acronym for His/Her Majesty's Hospital Ship. Early modern era Seventeenth century The earliest record of British hospital ship was ''Goodwill'', which briefly accompanied a Royal Navy squadron in the Mediterranean in 1608 or 1609 ...

List of ironclads of the Royal Navy This is a list of ironclads of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom. An ironclad was a steam-propelled warship in the early part of the second half of the 19th century, protected by iron or steel armour plates. The term ''battleship'' was not ...

List of mine countermeasure vessels of the Royal Navy Active ships * s ** HMS ''Ledbury'' (M30) ** HMS ''Cattistock'' (M31) ** HMS ''Brocklesby'' (M33) ** HMS ''Middleton'' (M34) ** HMS ''Chiddingfold'' (M37) ** HMS ''Hurworth'' (M39) * s ** HMS ''Penzance'' (M106) ** HMS ''Pembroke'' (M ...

* List of miscellaneous ships of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary *

List of monitors of the Royal Navy This is a list of 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 taken over by the ...

List of breastwork monitors of the Royal Navy The breastwork monitor was developed during the 1860s by Sir Edward Reed, Chief Constructor of the Royal Navy, as an improvement of the basic monitor design developed by John Ericsson during the American Civil War. Reed gave these ships a sup ...

List of patrol vessels of the Royal Navy This is a list of patrol boats of the Royal Navy. Active * patrol and training craft ** ''HMS Archer (P264), Archer'' ** ''HMS Biter (P270), Biter'' ** ''HMS Smiter (P272), Smiter'' ** ''HMS Pursuer (P273), Pursuer'' ** ''HMS Blazer (P279), B ...

List of replenishment ships of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary List of replenishment ships of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary is a list of all replenishment ships of the British Royal Fleet Auxiliary. Active Tankers Tide(II) class fast fleet tanker (2017) * {{ship, RFA, Tidespring, A136, 2 * '' ''Tiderace ...

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. Charles II had 25 royal yachts, while five were simultaneously in service in 1831. Merchantmen or warships have occasionally ...

List of seaplane carriers of the Royal Navy This is a list of Royal Navy seaplane carriers. Key Ships {{Lists of aircraft carriers Seaplane carriers Royal Navy The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Sc ...

List of ships of the line of the Royal Navy This is a list of ships of the line of the Royal Navy of England, and later (from 1707) of Great Britain, and the United Kingdom. The list starts from 1660, the year in which the Royal Navy came into being after the restoration of the monarch ...

* List of submarines of the Royal Navy * List of submarine classes of the Royal Navy *

List of support ships of the Royal Navy This is a list of support ships of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom. There are currently no active ships. In World War I, obsolete hulks and cruisers were generally used for maintenance and support. Many commercial vessels were taken up from ...

List of survey vessels of the Royal Navy Active ships Antarctic patrol vessel * (2011–) which carries the survey motor boat (SMB) ''James Caird IV''. Ocean survey vessels * (1997–) Coastal survey vessels * Echo-class survey ship (2002), ''Echo''-class multi–purpose survey v ...

List of torpedo boat classes of the Royal Navy This is a list of torpedo boat classes of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom, organised chronologically by entry into service. This article's coverage is restricted to the steam-powered torpedo boats built for or acquired by the British Navy be ...

Trawlers of the Royal Navy Naval trawlers were purpose-built or requisitioned and operated by the Royal Navy (RN), mainly during World Wars I and II. Vessels built to Admiralty specifications for RN use were known as Admiralty trawlers. All trawlers operated by the RN, ...

* List of requisitioned trawlers of the Royal Navy (WWII) *

List of warships of the Scots Navy This is a list of warships of the Royal Scots Navy, the navy of the Kingdom of Scotland prior to the Acts of Union 1707. For its continuation after this period, see List of ship names of the Royal Navy. Ships * unnamed man-of-war c1329 * ''K ...

Aircraft and helicopters

* List of aircraft of the Royal Naval Air Service *

List of aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm This is a list of aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm (FAA). On 1 April 1918 the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) was merged with the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) to form the Royal Air Force (RAF) which directly operated and controlled all naval aircraft ...

List of active United Kingdom military aircraft This is a list of military aircraft currently in service with the Armed Forces of the United Kingdom. Royal Air Force , - ! colspan="8" , Combat Aircraft , - , Eurofighter Typhoon , , United Kingdom , , Jet , , Multi-role , , 2007 , , ...

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, and on 22 September 1902 was flown from Crystal Palace, London to Ruislip, carr ...

Anti-aircraft weapons and equipment

Holman Projector The Holman Projector was an 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 Holmans, a machine tool manufacturer based at Camborne, Cornwall. A ...

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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 empl ...

Ordnance QF 3-pounder Vickers The Ordnance QF 3-pounder Vickers (47 mm / L50) was a British artillery piece first tested in Britain in 1903. It was used on Royal Navy warships. It was more powerful than and unrelated to the older QF 3-pounder Hotchkiss, with a propell ...

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Phalanx CIWS The Phalanx CIWS (often spoken as "sea-wiz") is a 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 Gen ...

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 ...

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QF 3-inch 20 cwt The QF 3 inch 20 cwt anti-aircraft gun became the standard anti-aircraft gun used in the home defence of the United Kingdom against German airships and bombers and on the Western Front in World War I. It was also common on British warships i ...

– retired * QF 4 inch Mk V naval gun – retired * QF 4 inch Mk XVI naval gun – retired * QF 4.5-inch Mk I - V naval gun – retired * QF 4.7 inch Mk VIII naval gun – retired *

Vickers .50 machine gun The Vickers .50 machine gun, also known as the 'Vickers .50' was similar to the Vickers machine gun but enlarged to use a larger-calibre round. It saw some use in tanks and other fighting vehicles but was more commonly used as a close-in anti- ...

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Surface-to-air anti-aircraft missiles

Fairey Stooge The Fairey Aviation Stooge was a command guided surface-to-air missile (SAM) development project carried out in the United Kingdom starting in World War II. Development dates to a British Army request from 1944, but the work was taken over by the ...

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Seacat Seacat may refer to: * Seacat missile, a short-range surface-to-air missile system * SeaCat (1992–2004), ferry company formerly operating from between Northern Ireland, Scotland and England * The Sea-Cat, an imaginary monster from Flann O'Brien' ...

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Sea Ceptor The CAMM (Common Anti-Air Modular Missile) is a family of surface-to-air missiles developed by MBDA UK for the United Kingdom. CAMM shares some common features and components with the ASRAAM air-to-air missile, but with updated electronics and an ...

* Sea Dart – retired * Seaslug – retired * Sea Viper * Sea Wolf

Surface-to-air anti-aircraft rockets

* Unrotated projectile - 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 l ...

* Gyro rate unit *

HACS High Angle Control System (HACS) was a British anti-aircraft fire-control system employed by the Royal Navy from 1931 and used widely during World War II. HACS calculated the necessary deflection required to place an explosive shell in the loc ...

* Hazemeyer gun mount *

Pom-Pom director "Pom-Pom" director was a director for British anti-aircraft guns on British warships of the 1930s into the Second World War. Development The Vickers 40 mm QF 2 pounder "Pom-Pom" gun anti-aircraft mounting was introduced to the Royal Navy in ...

Anti-submarine weapons and equipment

Anti-submarine missiles

Ikara Ikara is a town in Kaduna State, northern Nigeria, located around 75 kilometres north-east away from the city of Zaria. Ikara as a district consist of five towns which are Ikara, Tudun - wada, Nasarawa, Sabon - Gari, Jamfalan, Kurmin - Kogi, Ha ...

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Anti-submarine mortars

* BL 7.5-inch naval howitzer - retired *

Fairlie Mortar The Fairlie Mortar was an unsuccessful British anti-submarine mortar design of the early second World War. It projected small anti-submarine bombs simultaneously, ten from each side of the ship's forecastle, each containing of explosive. The Fairl ...

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

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Limbo In Catholic theology, Limbo (Latin '' limbus'', edge or boundary, referring to the edge of Hell) is the afterlife condition of those who die in original sin without being assigned to the Hell of the Damned. Medieval theologians of Western Euro ...

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Squid True squid are molluscs with an elongated soft body, large eyes, eight arms, and two tentacles in the superorder Decapodiformes, though many other molluscs within the broader Neocoleoidea are also called squid despite not strictly fittin ...

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Anti-submarine sonar and equipment

* List of British Asdic systems * Sonar 2076 *

Sonar 2087 Sonar 2087 is a towed array sonar designed and manufactured by Thales Underwater Systems at sites in the UK (Cheadle Heath in Stockport and Templecombe in Somerset) and in France ( Brest). Sonar 2087 replaces the older Sonar 2031 in the Royal Navy ...

Depth charges

* Mk 11 depth charge

Nuclear bombs 1950s-1990s

WE.177 The WE.177, originally styled as WE 177, and sometimes simply as WE177, was a series of tactical and strategic nuclear weapons with which the Royal Navy (RN) and the Royal Air Force (RAF) were equipped. It was the primary air-dropped nuclear we ...

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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 pl ...

- retired

Homing torpedoes

* 18" Mark 30 torpedo - retired *

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

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 ...

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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, and United States Marine Corps, as well as other various air forces ...

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AIM-9 Sidewinder The AIM-9 Sidewinder (where "AIM" stands for "Air Intercept Missile") is a short-range air-to-air missile which entered service with the US Navy in 1956 and subsequently was adopted by the US Air Force in 1964. Since then the Sidewinder has prove ...

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

AIM-120 AMRAAM The AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile, or AMRAAM (pronounced ), is an American beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile (BVRAAM) capable of all-weather day-and-night operations. It is 7 inches (18 cm) in diameter, and employ ...

* Friestreak – retired * Red Top – retired

Air-to-surface missiles

AGM-12 Bullpup The AGM-12 Bullpup is a short-range air-to-ground missile developed by Martin Marietta for the US Navy. It is among the earliest precision guided air-to-ground weapons and the first to be mass produced. It first saw operational use in 1959 on th ...

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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, expre ...

SS.11 The SS.11, or AS.11, known as AGM-22 in American service, is a French manual command to line of sight wire-guided anti-tank missile manufactured by Nord Aviation. The missile entered service with the French Army in 1956. Production of the SS ...

– retired * SS.12/AS.12 – retired *

Sea Skua The Sea Skua is a British lightweight short-range air-to-surface missile (ASM) designed for use from helicopters against ships. It was primarily used by the Royal Navy on the Westland Lynx. Although the missile is intended for helicopter use, Kuw ...

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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 genus ''Haliaeetus'' in the bird of prey family Accipitridae. Taxonomy and evolution The genus ''Haliaeetus'' ...

– retired * Sea Venom

Land attack missiles

Tomahawk A tomahawk is a type of single-handed axe used by the many Indigenous peoples and nations of North America. It traditionally resembles a hatchet with a straight shaft. In pre-colonial times the head was made of stone, bone, or antler, and Eur ...

Anti-ship missiles

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

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Harpoon A harpoon is a long spear-like instrument and tool used in fishing, whaling, sealing, and other marine hunting to catch and injure large fish or marine mammals such as seals and whales. It accomplishes this task by impaling the target ani ...

Red Angel is a 1966 Japanese film directed by Yasuzo Masumura. It tells the story of a young Japanese nurse on the front lines in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War. It is based on a 1966 novel of the same name by Yoriyoshi Arima ( ja). Plot Saku ...

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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- ...

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 system. Polaris was in service from 1968 to 1996. Polaris itself was an operational system ...

* Trident II D5 missile - See the Trident (UK nuclear programme)

Unmanned aerial vehicles

Boeing Insitu ScanEagle The Boeing Insitu ScanEagle is a small, long-endurance, low-altitude unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) built by Insitu, a subsidiary of Boeing, and is used for reconnaissance. The ScanEagle was designed by Insitu based on the Insitu SeaScan, a co ...

* Target Technology Ltd Imp

Target drones

Airspeed Queen Wasp The Airspeed AS.30 Queen Wasp was a British pilotless target aircraft built by Airspeed Limited at Portsmouth during the Second World War. Although intended for both Royal Air Force and Royal Navy use, the aircraft never went into series ...

* Curtiss Queen Seamew * De Havilland DH.82 Queen Bee * Northrop MQM-36 Shelduck * Miles Queen Marinet *

Northrop BQM-74 Chukar The BQM-74 Chukar is a series of aerial target drones produced by Northrop. The Chukar has gone through three major revisions, including the initial MQM-74A Chukar I, the MQM-74C Chukar II, and the BQM-74C Chukar III. They are recoverable, re ...

Mine disposal systems

* Paravane

Remotely operated underwater vehicles

Seafox drone The Seafox is an anti- mine remotely operated vehicle (ROV) manufactured by German company Atlas Elektronik to locate and destroy ground and moored mines. There are two versions and a training version. The orange Seafox-I "inspection" variant ha ...

Unguided rockets

Air-to-surface rockets

RP-3 The RP-3 (from Rocket Projectile 3 inch) was a British air to ground 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 warhead gave rise to ...

* SNEB

Naval artillery weapons and equipment

Naval guns

4.5 inch Mark 8 naval gun The 4.5 inch Mark 8 is a British naval gun system which currently equips the Royal Navy's destroyers and frigates, and some British destroyers and frigates sold to other countries. Background Guns with a 4.5 inch calibre have been th ...

Naval artillery equipment

Admiralty Fire Control Table Admiralty Fire Control Table in the transmitting station of .The Admiralty Fire Control Table (A.F.C.T.) was an electromechanical analogue computer fire-control system that calculated the correct elevation and deflection of the main armament of a R ...

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Vickers range clock The Vickers Range Clock was a clockwork device used by the Royal Navy for continuously calculating the range to an enemy ship. Overview In 1903, Percy Scott described a device he'd invented which was similar to the Vickers clock. In April 1904, ...

- retired

Torpedoes

British 18 inch torpedo There have been a number of 18-inch torpedoes in service with 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 and submarines use 21-inc ...

British 21 inch torpedo There have been several British 21-inch (533 mm) torpedoes used by the Royal Navy since their first development just before the First World War. Torpedoes of 21 inch calibre were the largest torpedoes in common use in the RN. They were used b ...

* 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 wire or by autonomous active or passive sonar, and provides both anti-submarine warfare (ASW) and anti- ...

Whitehead torpedo The Whitehead torpedo was the first self-propelled or "locomotive" torpedo ever developed. It was perfected in 1866 by Robert Whitehead from a rough design conceived by Giovanni Luppis of the Austro-Hungarian Navy in Fiume. It was driven by a t ...

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Naval radars

* see

List of World War II British naval radar This page is a List of World War II 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 and 29x series. Wh ...

Type 965 radar The Type 965 radar was VHF ( P band) long-range aircraft warning radar used by warships of the Royal Navy from the 1960s onwards. The Type 965M, Type 965P, Type 965Q and Type 965R were improved versions; the Type 960, 965M and 965Q used the sin ...

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 warning ...

Type 997 Artisan radar The Type 997 Artisan (Advanced Radar Target Indication Situational Awareness and Navigation) is a medium-range air and surface surveillance 3D radar developed and built by BAE Systems for the United Kingdom's Royal Navy. It has been fitted to all 1 ...

* Type 1022 Radar * S1850M * 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 ...

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 consist of a varied fleet of transport vessels, patrol vessels and special forces watercraft (I.e mini submarine ...

Uniforms of the Royal Marines The Royal Marines uniform is the standardised military dress worn by members of the Royal Marines. Historic Historically, Marine uniforms broadly matched those of the contemporary British Army, at least for full dress. The constraints of shipboa ...

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 The Corsham Computer Centre (CCC) is an underground British Ministry of Defence (MoD) installation in Corsham, Wiltshire, built in the 1980s. According to the MoD, the centre "processes data in support of the Royal Navy". The centre has been simil ...

* NATO Submarine Rescue System * Submarine Command System