HMS Trent

Five ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Trent, after the River Trent:


 * HMS Trent (1757) was a 28-gun sixth-rate frigate launched in 1757 and sold in 1764.
 * HMS Trent (1796) was a 36-gun fifth-rate frigate launched in 1796. She became a hospital ship in 1803, a receiving ship in 1818 and was broken up in 1823. She was used by David Buchan in the Arctic.
 * HMS Trent was a 17-gun sloop laid down in 1862. She was selected for conversion to an ironclad, and renamed HMS Research (1863) later that year, before being launched in 1863.
 * HMS Trent (1877) was a launched in 1877.  She was renamed HMS Pembroke in 1905, and HMS Gannet in 1917 when she served as a diving tender.  She was scrapped in 1923.
 * HMS Trent (K243) was a launched in 1942.  She was transferred to the Royal Indian Navy in 1946 and was renamed Kukri.  She was converted into a survey vessel in 1952 and renamed Investigator.  She was broken up in 1975.