Five ships of the
Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against ...
have borne the name HMS ''Fantome'', after the French word ''Fantôme'', meaning '
ghost':
* was an 18-gun French
privateer
A privateer is a private person or ship that engages in maritime warfare under a commission of war. Since robbery under arms was a common aspect of seaborne trade, until the early 19th century all merchant ships carried arms. A sovereign or deleg ...
brig-sloop
In the 18th century and most of the 19th, a sloop-of-war in the Royal Navy was a warship with a single gun deck that carried up to eighteen guns. The rating system covered all vessels with 20 guns and above; thus, the term ''sloop-of-war'' enc ...
, captured in 1810 by and wrecked in 1814.
* was a 16-gun launched in 1839 and sold in 1864.
* was a composite
screw sloop
A screw sloop is a propeller-driven sloop-of-war. In the 19th century, during the introduction of the steam engine, ships driven by propellers were differentiated from those driven by paddle-wheels by referring to the ship's ''screws'' (propelle ...
launched in 1873 and sold in 1889.
* was a
sloop launched in 1901. She was used as a survey ship from 1906 and was sold in 1925.
* was an launched in 1942 and scrapped in 1947.
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Royal Navy ship names