HMS Parthian

Four ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Parthian, after the 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 the coast of Egypt in 15 May 1828.
 * HMS Parthian was to have been a wooden screw gunvessel ordered in 1846 and cancelled in 1849.
 * HMS Parthian (1856) was a wooden gunboat launched in 1856 and broken up in 1864.
 * HMS Parthian (1916) was an M class destroyer launched in 1916 and sold for scrapping in 1921.
 * HMS Parthian (N75) was a Parthian class submarine launched in 1929, and sunk in 1943.