HMS Hotspur

Four ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Hotspur after the nickname of Sir Henry Percy:


 * HMS Hotspur (1810), a 36-gun fifth-rate in service from 1810 to 1821
 * HMS Hotspur (1828), a 46-gun fifth-rate launched in 1828, a chapel hulk after 1859, renamed Monmouth in 1868, and sold in 1902
 * HMS Hotspur (1870), an armoured ram launched in 1870 and sold in 1904
 * HMS Hotspur (H01), an launched in 1936 and transferred to the Dominican Republic in 1948

Fictional ships

 * A sloop called Hotspur appears in the Horatio Hornblower novel, Hornblower and the Hotspur, third in the series, armed with eighteen 9-pounder cannon and four carronades
 * A Hotspur appears in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's short story The Adventure of the Gloria Scott
 * A schooner called Hotspur appears in the Richard Bolitho novel A Band of Brothers, written by Douglas Reeman (using the pseudonym Alexander Kent).