HMS Fury
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Ten ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Fury, whilst another was planned but later cancelled:
- HMS Fury was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1779 and broken up in 1787.
- HMS Fury was a gunboat commissioned in 1782 at Gibraltar.
- HMS Fury was a 16-gun sloop launched in 1790. She was converted into a 16-gun bomb vessel in 1798 and broken up in 1811.
- HMS Fury was a 4-gun gunboat, previously a Dutch hoy purchased in 1794 and sold in 1802.
- HMS Fury was to have been an 8-gun bomb vessel. She was ordered in 1812, but the order was cancelled the following year.
- HMS Fury was an 8-gun bomb vessel launched in 1814. She made two voyages of exploration to the Arctic under William Edward Parry, but on the second one in 1825, she was damaged by ice and abandoned.
- HMS Fury was a wood paddle vessel purchased in 1834 and broken up in 1843.
- HMS Fury was a wood paddle sloop launched in 1845 and sold in 1864.
- HMS Fury was a turret ship renamed HMS Dreadnought before being launched in 1875.
- HMS Fury was an Acorn class destroyer launched in 1911 and sold in 1921.
- HMS Fury was an F class destroyer launched in 1934, damaged by a mine in 1944 and broken up later that year.