HMS ''Rorqual'' has been the name of two
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 ...
submarines. A
rorqual is a type of
whale
Whales are a widely distributed and diverse group of fully aquatic placental marine mammals. As an informal and colloquial grouping, they correspond to large members of the infraorder Cetacea, i.e. all cetaceans apart from dolphins and ...
:
* , a ''Grampus''-class submarine launched in 1936
* , a ''Porpoise''-class submarine launched in 1956
References
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Royal Navy ship names