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 ''Seamew'', another name for the
common gull
The common gull or sea mew (''Larus canus'') is a medium-sized gull that breeds in the Palearctic, northern Europe. The closely related short-billed gull is sometimes included in this species, which may be known collectively as "mew gull". Many ...
:
* was a coastguard vessel, transferred from the
Board of Customs in 1857 and sold in 1906.
* the trawler ''Nunthorpe Hall'' built in 1909 purchased by the Admiralty that April and converted into a First World War minesweeper, based at Sheerness in 1914, sold back to fishing use in 1920.
* was a river
gunboat launched in 1928 and sold in 1947.
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Royal Navy ship names