Ten ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Basilisk, after the Basilisk, a mythical lizard:
HMS Basilisk (1695) was a 4-gun bomb vessel launched in 1695 and broken up in 1729.
HMS Basilisk (1740) was a 4-gun bomb vessel launched in 1740 and sold in 1750.
HMS Basilisk (1759) was an 8-gun bomb vessel launched in 1759 and captured in 1762 by the French privateer Audacieux.
HMS Basilisk was a fireship, previously the 14-gun sloop HMS Grasshopper. She was renamed HMS Basilisk in 1779 and was sold in 1783.
HMS Basilisk (1801) was a 12-gun Bloodhound-class gun-brig launched in 1801 and sold in 1815.
HMS Basilisk (1822) was a 6-gun cutter launched in 1822 and sold in 1846.
HMS Basilisk (1848) was a wood paddle sloop launched in 1848 and broken up in 1882.
HMS Basilisk (1889) was a Beagle-class steel screw sloop launched in 1889. She became a coal hulk and was renamed C 7, finally being sold into civilian service in 1905.
HMS Basilisk (1910) was a Beagle-class destroyer launched in 1910 and sold in 1921.
HMS Basilisk (H11) was a B-class destroyer launched in 1930 and sunk in 1940.
List of ships with the same or similar names
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HMSBasilisk, after the Basilisk, a mythical lizard: HMSBasilisk (1695) was a 4-gun bomb vessel launched in 1695 and broken up in 1729. HMSBasilisk (1740)...
a 14-gun sloop. She was renamed HMS Basilisk in 1779 and converted to a fireship; Basilisk was sold in 1783. HMS Grasshopper (1806) was a Cruizer-class...
HMS Glorious was the second of the three Courageous-class battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy during the First World War. Designed to support the...
River after Sir Clements in the course of his voyage of exploration in HMSBasilisk in 1873. The valley contains two districts of Morobe Province: Huon Gulf...
are: HMSBasilisk, Captain John Moresby (July 1872); HMS Emerald, Captain William Maxwell (1881); HMS Royalist, Captain Edward Davis (1892); and HMS Curacoa...
which his ship HMSBasilisk was sunk, and also took part in the sinking of the Bismarck while serving as a gunnery officer on board HMS Rodney in May 1941...
Hewett's other commands included HMS Viper, HMS Rinaldo and, following his promotion to captain on 24 November 1862, HMSBasilisk as flag-captain to Sir Henry...
Lancastria was free to depart and the captain of the British destroyer HMS Havelock advised her to do so; but, without a destroyer escort as defence...
Island, Siassi, before disease forced him to leave. 1874 John Moresby on HMSBasilisk sails along Huon Gulf and names Parsee Point (Salamaua), the Markham...
The first was when USS Lydonia and HMSBasilisk sank a U-boat off Algiers on May 8, 1918. Lydonia and Basilisk were steaming with a convoy from Bizerte...
On Basilisk Station is a science fiction novel by American writer David Weber, first published in 1993. It is the first book in his Honor Harrington series...
HMS Keith was a B-class destroyer flotilla leader built for the Royal Navy around 1930. Initially assigned to the Mediterranean Fleet, she was placed...
name for North Island. The Admiralty requisitioned Aotearoa and renamed her HMS Avenger. She was completed on 14 December 1915 as an armed merchant cruiser...
in On Basilisk Station and a heavy cruiser that appears in The Honor of the Queen, both books by David Weber. A fictional man-of-war named HMS Fearless...
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