HMS Comet

The name HMS Comet, after the comet, has been used no fewer than sixteen times by the Royal Navy.

• HMS Comet (1695) was a 4-gun bomb vessel built in 1695 and captured by the French in 1706.
• HMS Comet (1742) was a 14-gun bomb vessel in use from 1742 to 1759.
• HMS Comet (1756) was a galley used in 1756.
• HMS Comet (1758) was a 10-gun brig-sloop in India in 1758.
• HMS Comet (1777) was a 10-gun sloop purchased in 1777 and sold the following year.
• HMS Comet was the 10-gun sloop Diligence converted to a fire ship in 1779 but sold the following year.
• HMS Comet (1783) was a fire ship built in 1783 and used in 1800 at Dunkirk Roads.
• HMS Comet (1807) was an 18-gun sloop launched in 1807 and sold in 1815.
• HMS Comet (1822) was launched in 1822, making her the first steam-powered vessel of the Royal Navy, although not added to the Navy List until 1831.
• HMS Comet (1828) was an 18-gun Comet-class sloop launched in 1828, renamed Comus in 1832, and broken up 1862.
• HMS Comet was the former HMS Thunderer, renamed in 1869.
• HMS Comet (1870) was an Ant-class flat-iron gunboat launched in 1870 and sold for breaking in 1908.
• HMS Comet (1910) was an Acorn-class destroyer launched in 1910 and sunk by an Austrian submarine in 1918.
• HMS Comet (H00) was a 1930s C-class destroyer launched in 1931, renamed Restigouche in 1938, and broken up in 1946.
• HMS Comet (R26) was a 1940s C-class destroyer in service from 1944 to 1962.

See also

• Comet was an American brig used in the coastwise slave trade that was blown into Bermuda in 1831; the British seized it and liberated the slaves it was carrying.
• Comet was an iron paddle boat built by Lairds in 1839 for the East India Company's marine service.
• Comeet was the Dutch brig Komeet, captured in 1795, renamed HMS Penguin later that year or early the next, and sold in 1809.