Ten ships of the Royal Navy have carried the name HMS Spitfire, while an eleventh was planned but renamed before entering service. All are named after...

HMS Spitfire was an Acasta-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. Spitfire took part in the battle of Jutland in 1916. She was launched on 23 December 1912...

1916. During the battle, Nassau collided with the British destroyer HMS Spitfire. Nassau suffered a total of 11 killed and 16 injured during the engagement...

Botafogo (galleon), Spitfire in Portuguese, at the time the largest ship ever built HMCS Spitfire, a 1855 Australian gunboat HMS Spitfire, the name of 10...

HMS Spitfire was a Tisiphone-class fireship of the Royal Navy. She served during the years of peace following the end of the American War of Independence...

and promoted to commander on 13 November 1790, in command of the sloop HMS Spitfire. He was then in a good position to profit from the mass promotions that...

HMS Spitfire was one of two Swordfish-class destroyers which served with the Royal Navy. She was launched on 7 June 1895 by Armstrong Mitchell & Co. at...

HMS Spitfire was the French 6-gun privateer schooner Poulette, launched in 1793, that the Royal Navy captured that same year. Lieutenant John Perkins commissioned...

chaos, and the German battleship SMS Nassau rammed the British destroyer HMS Spitfire, blowing away most of the British ship's superstructure merely with the...

The Supermarine Spitfire is a British single-seat fighter aircraft that was used by the Royal Air Force and other Allied countries before, during, and...

commander. He received his first command in mid-1796, that of the sloop HMS Spitfire. He spent the next several years cruising in the Channel, and off the...

century, plotting the soundings assiduously and with some danger taken by HMS Spitfire (a paddle gunboat) in 1852, published a visual account of the coastal...

sold in 1750. HMS Speedwell (1752) was an 8-gun sloop, converted to a fireship and renamed HMS Spitfire in 1779, and sold in 1780. HMS Speedwell (1761)...

1934. HMS Cambrian (R85) was a C-class destroyer. She was laid down as HMS Spitfire, but was renamed before her launch in 1943. She was sold in 1971. This...

She was ordered to Cape François but was subsequently recaptured by HMS Spitfire. Généreux ( French Navy): Siege of Toulon: Téméraire-class ship of the...

name was assigned by Thomas Spratt in his 1852 survey of Crete aboard HMS Spitfire, under his command. He was proceeding through the passage between Sideros...

HMS Cambrian was one of eight C-class destroyers built for the Royal Navy during the Second World War. commissioned in mid-1944, she was assigned to the...

4th D.F. HMS Spitfire: Lt Cdr Clarence Walter Eyre Trelawney HMS Sparrowhawk (scuttled 1 June following collision): Lt Cdr Sydney Hopkins HMS Garland:...

Cockchafer (1881) Starling (1882) Stork (1882) Raven (1882) Albacore class HMS Albacore HMS Mistletoe HMS Watchful Bramble class Rattler (1886) Wasp (1886) Lizard (1886)...

10 vessels named HMS Spitfire. Since the late 1930s, however, the word has been more famously associated with the Supermarine Spitfire fighter aircraft...

Three of Howe's ships, the sixth-rate HMS Sphinx, the converted merchantman HMS Vigilant and the row galley HMS Spitfire Galley, bombarded American troops...

gunboat Hannah 1806, October 26 – HMS Pitt captures the French privateer Superbe 1806, December 29 – HMS Spitfire captures French privateer Deux Frères...

The Supermarine Seafire is a naval version of the Supermarine Spitfire fighter adapted for operation from aircraft carriers. It was analogous in concept...

by 1921. HMS Acasta HMS Ambuscade HMS Ardent HMS Contest HMS Hardy at speed HMS Midge HMS Spitfire showing damage sustained at Jutland HMS Unity Victor...

converted sixth-rate HMS Volage. He then succeeded Graves as commander of HMS Spitfire. He rendered distinguished service in the Black Sea during the Crimean...

sloop HMS Canceaux in company with the 20-gun ship Cat, the 12-gun schooner HMS Halifax, the bomb sloop HMS Spitfire, and the supply ship HMS Symmetry...

British fleet. The leading British ships, Tipperary, HMS Spitfire, Sparrowhawk, HMS Garland, HMS Contest and Broke all fired torpedoes at the German ships...

lines. By 10 a.m., the sixth-rate HMS Sphynx, the converted merchantman HMS Vigilant, and the row galley HMS Spitfire Galley had negotiated the passage...

ship HMS Sphynx captured the 18-gun French Navy brig Trompeuse, which the Royal Navy took into service under her own name. In May 1797 HMS Spitfire, under...

January. On 12 January, the storeship Allègre was captured by the brig HMS Spitfire. By 13 January, all of the French fleet had been accounted for except...