Nine 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 been named HMS ''Supply''. * was a 6-gun

fireship A fire ship or fireship, used in the days of wooden rowed or sailing ships, was a ship filled with combustibles, or gunpowder deliberately set on fire and steered (or, when possible, allowed to drift) into an enemy fleet, in order to destroy sh ...

purchased in 1672 and expended in 1673. * was a 9-gun fireship purchased in 1688. Her fate is unknown. * was a 4-gun hoy launched in 1725 and captured in 1752 * was a 4-gun armed tender launched in 1759 and sold in 1792; she played an important part in the foundation of Australia. * was a 26-gun storeship, originally in civilian service as the ''Prince of Wales''. She was purchased in 1777 and destroyed in accidental fire in 1779. * was a 20-gun storeship purchased in 1781 and sold in 1784. * was a 10-gun storeship, of 388 tons (bm), originally the American mercantile ''New Brunswick'', which the Admiralty purchased in 1793 as an armed vessel for the colony at

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; she was broken up there in 1806. * was a transport launched in 1798 and broken up in 1834. * was an iron-screw storeship purchased whilst under construction in 1854. She had been broken up by 1879.

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