Active Ships

• Antarctic
  Antarctic
  The Antarctic is the region around the Earth's South Pole, opposite the Arctic region around the North Pole. The Antarctic comprises the continent of Antarctica and the ice shelves, waters and island territories in the Southern Ocean situated south of the Antarctic Convergence...
  
   patrol vessel
  • HMS Endurance
    HMS Endurance (A171)
    MV Polar Circle was built in Norway in 1990, chartered by the Royal Navy as HMS Polar Circle, and finally purchased as HMS Endurance. She is a former Antarctic ice patrol ship, and is a class 1A1 icebreaker...
    
    

• Ocean
  Ocean
  An ocean is a major body of saline water, and a principal component of the hydrosphere. Approximately 71% of the Earth's surface is covered by ocean, a continuous body of water that is customarily divided into several principal oceans and smaller seas.More than half of this area is over 3,000...
  
   survey vessels
  • HMS Scott
    HMS Scott (H131)
    HMS Scott is an ocean survey vessel of the Royal Navy, and the only vessel of her class. She is the third Royal Navy ship to carry the name, and the second to be named after the Antarctic explorer, Robert Falcon Scott. She was ordered to replace the survey ship HMS Hecla.-Construction:She was...
    
    

• Coast
  Coast
  A coastline or seashore is the area where land meets the sea or ocean. A precise line that can be called a coastline cannot be determined due to the dynamic nature of tides. The term "coastal zone" can be used instead, which is a spatial zone where interaction of the sea and land processes occurs...
  
  al survey vessels
  • HMS Gleaner
    HMS Gleaner (H86)
    HMSML Gleaner is the smallest commissioned vessel in the Royal Navy with a length of just under 15 meters and a ship's company of just 8 . Commanded by Lieutenant Commander John Winn, she is currently based in Devonport, Plymouth...
    
    

• Echo class Multi-purpose survey vessels
  • HMS Echo
    HMS Echo (H87)
    HMS Echo is the first of two multi-role hydrographic survey ships commissioned by the Royal Navy. With her sister ship, , they form the Echo class of survey vessels. She was built by Appledore Shipbuilders in Devon in 2002 and is the ninth Royal Navy vessel to carry the name.-Design:Echo and...
    
    
  • HMS Enterprise
    HMS Enterprise (H88)
    HMS Enterprise, the tenth ship to bear this name, is a multi-role survey vessel - hydrographic oceanographic of the Royal Navy. She has a sister ship, , and together they make up the Echo class of survey vessels.-Design:...
    
    

Decommissioned ships

• Antarctic patrol vessels
  • HMS Endurance (i)
    HMS Endurance (1967)
    HMS Endurance was a Royal Navy ice patrol vessel that served from 1967 to 1991. She came to public notice when she was involved in the Falklands War of 1982.-Service history:...
    
    
  • HMS Protector
    HMS Protector (A146)
    HMS Protector was an Antarctic patrol vessel of the Royal Navy.She was laid down as a fast net layer by Yarrow Shipbuilders in Glasgow in August 1935, launched in August 1936 and commissioned on 30 December 1936. She served in the South Atlantic and in the Norwegian Campaign during World War II...
    
    

• Ocean survey vessels
  • HMS Hecla
    HMS Hecla (A133)
    HMS Hecla was the lead ship of the Hecla class, an oceangoing survey ship type in the Royal Navy. She was ordered in the mid 1960s, along with her sisters ships and . A fourth ship, , was completed in the early 1970s. The ship served for thirty years in this role, and various others, before...
    
    
  • HMS Hecate
    HMS Hecate (A137)
    HMS Hecate was a Royal Navy deep ocean survey vessel of the Hecla-class. She was present at the "presentation of fleet colours" review in Torbay on 29 July 1969. The ship was decommissioned in 1990....
    
    
  • HMS Hydra
    HMS Hydra (A144)
    HMS Hydra was a Royal Navy deep ocean hydrographic survey vessel, the third of the original three of the Hecla class. The ship was laid down as yard number 2258 on 14 May 1964 at Yarrow Shipbuilders, at Scotstoun on the River Clyde and launched on 14 July 1965 by Mary Lythall, wife of the then...
    
    
  • HMS Herald
    HMS Herald (H138)
    HMS Herald was a Hecla-class ocean survey ship that served with the Royal Navy during both the Falklands War and Gulf War. She was built by Robb Caledon Shipbuilders in Leith, Scotland....
    
    

• Coastal survey vessels
  • Bulldog class
    Bulldog class survey vessel
    The Bulldog class was a four ship class of survey vessel in service with the Royal Navy from the late 1960s until the start of the 21st century. Initially designed with service overseas in mind, they spent most of their careers off the British coast. A fifth ship was subsequently built to a...
    
    
    • HMS Bulldog
      HMS Bulldog (A317)
      HMS Bulldog was one of four Bulldog class hydrographic survey ships of the Royal Navy. She was built by the yacht builder Brooke Marine and launched in 1968....
      
      
    • HMS Beagle
      HMS Beagle (A319)
      HMS Beagle was a Bulldog class coastal survey vessel of the Royal Navy.She was originally to have been called HMS Barracouta but her name was changed to HMS Beagle in honour of the ship which carried Charles Darwin....
      
      
    • HMS Fox
      HMS Fox (A320)
      HMS Fox, pennant number A320, was a Bulldog-class hydrographic survey ship of the British Royal Navy....
      
      
    • HMS Fawn
      HMS Fawn (A325)
      HMS Fawn, pennant number A325, was a Bulldog-class hydrographic survey ship of the British Royal Navy.]...
      
      
  • HMS Roebuck
    HMS Roebuck (H130)
    HMS Roebuck was a coastal survey vessel of the Royal Navy . She was commissioned in 1986, and was the last traditional survey ship to join the fleet. Although nominally used for surveying along the United Kingdom continental shelf, with the downsizing of the survey fleet, Roebuck was enhanced to...
    
    

• Inshore survey vessels
  • Echo class
    Echo class survey ship (1957)
    The Echo class was a class of inshore survey vessel built for the British Royal Navy in 1958–1959. The class was designed to operate in close waters such as harbour approaches, shipping lanes, rivers and estuaries...
    
    
    • HMS Echo
    • HMS Enterprise
      HMS Enterprise (A71)
      The ninth HMS Enterprise of the Royal Navy was an Echo class inshore survey ship built by M.W. Blackmore & Sons of Bideford and commissioned in 1959....
      
      
    • HMS Egeria

• • Ham class
    Ham class minesweeper
    The Ham class was a class of inshore minesweepers , known as the Type 1, of the British Royal Navy. The class was designed to operate in the shallow water of rivers and estuaries. It took its name from the fact that all the ship names were British place names ending in -"ham"...
    
    
    • HMS Waterwitch
      HMS Powderham
      HMS Powderham was one of 93 ships of the of inshore minesweepers.Their names were all chosen from villages ending in -ham. The minesweeper was named after Powderham in Devon....
      
      
    • HMS Woodlark
      HMS Woodlark
      Several Royal Navy ships have been named HMS Woodlark :*HMS Woodlark was a Plover class wooden screw gunvessel which served from 1871–1887*HMS Woodlark was a Woodcock class river gunboat which served from 1897–1928...
      
      
    • HMS Myrmidon (ex-HMS Edderton)
      HMS Myrmidon
      Seven ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Myrmidon after the Myrmidons of Greek mythology.* The first Myrmidon was a 22-gun sixth-rate in use from 1781 to 1811....
      
      
    • HMS Mermaid (ex-HMS Sullington)
  • Survey Motor Launches (SML)
    • SML 322
    • SML 326
    • HMS Medusa
    • HMS Meda

• Earlier survey vessels
  • HMS Dampier
  • HMS Dalrymple
  • HMS Owen
  • HMS Cook
  • HMS Scott
  • HMS Shackleton
  • HMS Vidal
    HMS Vidal
    -Construction and naming:Vidal was built at Chatham Dockyard, and was the last surface vessel, and the last oceanographic survey vessel built at the Dockyard. She was also the first small ship designed to carry a helicopter. She was launched on 31 July 1951 and commissioned into service in 1954...
    
    
  • HMS Endeavor
    HMS Endeavour
    HMS Endeavour may refer to one of the following ships:In the Royal Navy:, a 36-gun ship purchased in 1652 and sold in 1656, a 4-gun bomb vessel purchased in 1694 and sold in 1696, a fire ship purchased in 1694 and sold in 1696, a storeship hoy purchased in 1694 and sold in 1705, a storeship...
    
    
  • HMS Challenger
    HMS Challenger
    Eight ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Challenger, most famously the survey vessel Challenger that carried the Challenger expedition from 1872 to 1876....
    
    
  • HMS Sharpshooter
  • HMS Fantome
    HMS Fantome (1901)
    HMS Fantome was an Cadmus-class sloop launched in 1901, transferred to the Royal Australian Navy in 1914, returned to the Royal Navy in 1920, and sold in 1924...
    
    
  • HMS Franklin
  • HMS Stork
  • HMS Seagull
    HMS Seagull (J85)
    HMS Seagull was a , and the first Royal Navy ship to be built entirely without rivets. She was completed on 30th March 1938.During the Second World War she helped escort 21 Arctic convoys, and participated in Operation Neptune...
    
    
  • HMS White Bear
  • HMS Jason
    HMS Jason (J99)
    HMS Jason was a . She was named after the hero in Greek mythology and was the sixteenth Royal Navy ship to carry the name Jason. She was laid down on 12 December 1936, launched on 6 October 1937, and was completed on 9 June 1938. She survived the Second World War and was sold in 1946 to become...
    
    
  • HMS Fitzroy
  • HMS Melisande
  • HMS Kellett
  • HMS Ormonde