Ten ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Royalist:
HMS Royalist (1798) was a gun-vessel of four guns, purchased in 1798 and no longer listed by 1800. This may represent a faulty attribution of HM hired armed lugger Royalist.
HMS Royalist (1797) was a 14-gun schooner purchased in 1797 and listed until 1801.
HMS Royalist (1807) was a Cruizer-class brig-sloop of 18 guns, built at Sandwich, Kent in 1807. She had an active career during the Napoleonic Wars and was sold in 1819.
HMS Royalist (1823) was a Cherokee-class brig-sloop built in 1823 at Portsmouth. She spent much of her life as a tender to battleships and was sold in 1838.
HMS Royalist (1841) was the ex-Mary Gordon, built at Bombay in 1839 and purchased in China in 1841. She was hulked in 1856, and served the Thames Police between 1860 and 1890.
HMS Royalist (1861) an 11-gun wood, screw sloop launched at Devonport in 1861 and broken up in 1875.
HMS Royalist (1883) was a Satellite-class corvette launched 1883. She was hulked as a depot ship in 1900, renamed Colleen in 1913 and transferred to the Irish Free State in 1923. She was scrapped in 1950.
HMS Royalist (1915) was an Arethusa-class light cruiser launched in 1915. She served in World War I and was scrapped in 1922.
HMS Royalist (1929) was a submarine laid down in June 1929 and cancelled in July.
HMS Royalist (89) was a Dido-class cruiser launched in 1942. She served in World War II and was loaned to the Royal New Zealand Navy in 1956. On her return to the Royal Navy in 1967 she was scrapped.
Ten ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMSRoyalist: HMSRoyalist (1798) was a gun-vessel of four guns, purchased in 1798 and no longer listed by...
British Protectorate by Captain Davis R.N., of HMSRoyalist between 27 May and 17 June 1892. The Royalist also visited each of the Ellice Islands, and Captain...
HMS Defender (1809), an 8-gun lugger, previously the French privateer Beau Marseille. She was captured in 1809 by HMSRoyalist and sold in 1814. HMS Defender (1883)...
1905, HMS Colleen Old in 1916, HMS Emerald in 1918 and HMS Cuckoo later in 1918 before being sold in 1922. HMSRoyalist was a Satellite-class corvette...
were declared as the British Protectorate by Captain Edward Davis of HMSRoyalist (1883) on 27 May 1892. The neighboring Ellice Islands (now Tuvalu) were...
carriers and fourteen other ships, including his flagship the light cruiser HMSRoyalist. This referred to Operation Potluck, intended as a diversion from continuing...
and Ellice Islands. 1892, from 14 April to 30 August, the screw sloop HMSRoyalist, under Captain Edward Davis, visited the Gilbert and Ellice Islands....
protectorate was first proclaimed over the Gilberts by Captain Edward Davis of HMSRoyalist on 27 May 1892. British official Arthur Mahaffy visited the Islands in...
cruisers USS Philadelphia, HMS Tauranga, HMS Porpoise and the corvette HMSRoyalist landed the sailors and marines, Royalist was sent ahead of the expedition...
then became a trader on Nukufetau. In 1892, Captain Edward Davis of HMSRoyalist reported on trading activities and traders on each of the islands visited...
visited the islands in 1881. HMS Miranda, under Commander Dyke Acland, visited many of the islands in 1886. HMSRoyalist, under Captain Edward Davis,...
factions, the House of Auatubu and the House of Teabike, until in 1892 HMSRoyalist (1883) arrived, with Captain Edward Davis proclaiming that the island...
each of the Gilbert Islands agreed to Captain Edward Davis commanding HMSRoyalist of the Royal Navy declaring them part of a British protectorate, along...
under the protection of naval guns. The British cruiser HMS Porpoise and corvette HMSRoyalist were deployed to Apia; sailors and marines from these two...
promoted to commander. Downie commanded the 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop Royalist from 15 June 1810 to December 1812, operating in the English Channel and...
Samoan civil unrest in 1899, she took part in operations with HMS Porpoise and HMSRoyalist. Spending between 1901 and 1903 in reserve at Sydney before...
photographer, visited Funafuti around 1885–86. In 1892, Captain Edward Davis of HMSRoyalist provided a report describing the traders and trading activities he observed...
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