Eight ships of the
Royal Navy have borne the name HMS ''Satellite'':
* was a 16-gun
brig-sloop launched in 1806. She foundered in 1810.
* was an 18-gun launched in 1812 and sold in 1824.
* was an 18-gun
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 ...
launched in 1826 and broken up in 1849.
* was a paddle
gunboat launched in 1840 and listed until 1860.
* was a wooden screw
corvette
A corvette is a small warship. It is traditionally the smallest class of vessel considered to be a proper (or " rated") warship. The warship class above the corvette is that of the frigate, while the class below was historically that of the slo ...
launched in 1855 and broken up in 1879.
* was a composite screw corvette launched in 1881. She was used as a drill ship for the
Royal Naval Reserve from 1904 and was sold in 1947.
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HMS ''Satellite'' was an launched in 1942 as . She was renamed HMS ''Satellite'' on becoming a drill ship in 1947. The name reverted to ''Melita'' in 1951, and she was sold for scrapping in 1959.
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HMS ''Satellite'' was an ''Algerine''-class minesweeper launched in 1943 as . She was renamed HMS ''Satellite'' on becoming a drill ship in 1951, and was sold in 1958.
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Royal Navy ship names