HMS Comet

The name HMS Comet, after the comet, has been used no fewer than sixteen times by the Royal Navy.


 * HMS Comet (1695) was a 4-gun bomb vessel built in 1695 and captured by the French in 1706.
 * HMS Comet (1742) was a 14-gun bomb vessel in use from 1742 to 1759.
 * HMS Comet (1756) was a galley used in 1756.
 * HMS Comet (1758) was a 10-gun brig-sloop in India in 1758.
 * HMS Comet (1777) was a 10-gun sloop purchased in 1777 and sold the following year.
 * HMS Comet was the 10-gun sloop Diligence converted to a fire ship in 1779 but sold the following year.
 * HMS Comet (1783) was a fire ship built in 1783 and used in 1800 at Dunkirk Roads.
 * HMS Comet (1807) was an 18-gun sloop launched in 1807 and sold in 1815.
 * HMS Comet (1822) was launched in 1822, making her the first steam-powered vessel of the Royal Navy, although not added to the Navy List until 1831.
 * HMS Comet (1828) was an 18-gun launched in 1828, renamed Comus in 1832, and broken up 1862.
 * HMS Comet was the former HMS Thunderer (1831), renamed in 1869.
 * HMS Comet (1870) was an flat-iron gunboat launched in 1870 and sold for breaking in 1908.
 * HMS Comet (1910) was an launched in 1910 and sunk by an Austrian submarine in 1918.
 * HMS Comet (H00) was a 1930s C-class destroyer launched in 1931, renamed Restigouche in 1938, and broken up in 1946.
 * HMS Comet (1944) was a 1940s C-class destroyer in service from 1944 to 1962.