"Most common Royal Navy warship name" Topic

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Bozkashi Jones	09 Mar 2015 11:59 a.m. PST
At work the other day a mate pondered the most common name for an RN warship. I reckoned either Renown or Repulse (turned out to be 8 and 13 respectively), he reckoned Ark Royal (a mere 5!), but neither of these come close to HMS Eagle and HMS Lion (both 18!). I won't mention the 5 HMS Plumpers (yes, really). My question, then, is can anyone find a more common ship name?
JimDuncanUK	09 Mar 2015 12:15 p.m. PST
HMS Pinafore, used hundreds of times.
Repiqueone	09 Mar 2015 12:50 p.m. PST
HMS Falcon (22)
DeltaBravo	09 Mar 2015 12:53 p.m. PST
I can't beat either of those to but there's also HMS Dolphin at 17 (18 on wiki), if including land establishments.
GarrisonMiniatures	09 Mar 2015 1:23 p.m. PST
Eagle is actually 23 according to 'British Warship Names' The name goes back to 1592.
GarrisonMiniatures	09 Mar 2015 1:25 p.m. PST
Falcon is down as 27, first recorded 1212.
GarrisonMiniatures	09 Mar 2015 1:35 p.m. PST
Final tally: Fox 31, Swallow 32 (earliest 1345) and Mary 'At least 30, about half of these in the 17th Century'
Mr Pumblechook	09 Mar 2015 2:23 p.m. PST
You could assume, if you're talking about the number of ships to use a specific name, that the smaller classes of ships will go through more iterations than the larger ones as their life cycle will be shorter (or get destroyed/lost more often)

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