There have been two ships of the
Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by Kingdom of England, English and Kingdom of Scotland, Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were foug ...
named HMS ''Opal'':
* , an ''Emerald''-class steam
corvette launched in 1875 and sold for scrap in 1891.
* , an launched in 1915 and wrecked in the
North Sea
The North Sea lies between Great Britain, Norway, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium. An epeiric sea on the European continental shelf, it connects to the Atlantic Ocean through the English Channel in the south and the Norwegian S ...
in 1918.
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Royal Navy ship names