Three 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 F ...
have borne the name HMS ''Research''. A fourth was planned and launched, but never entered service:
* was a tender purchased in 1846 and broken up in 1859.
* was an ironclad screw
sloop
A sloop is a sailboat with a single mast typically having only one headsail in front of the mast and one mainsail aft of (behind) the mast. Such an arrangement is called a fore-and-aft rig, and can be rigged as a Bermuda rig with triangular sa ...
built as HMS ''Trent'' but renamed in 1862 and launched in 1863. She was sold in 1884.
* was a paddle
survey vessel
A survey vessel is any type of ship or boat that is used for underwater surveys, usually to collect data for mapping or planning underwater construction or mineral extraction. It is a type of research vessel, and may be designed for the purpo ...
built as HMS ''Investigator'' but renamed in 1887 and launched in 1888. She was sold in 1920.
* HMS ''Research'' was to have been a survey vessel. She was launched in 1939 but was not completed, and was scrapped in 1952.
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Royal Navy ship names