The British Royal Navy has used the name HMS Comet, after the comet, no fewer than 16 times:
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 1749, when she was sold. She became an armed merchant vessel named Adventure, which appears in Lloyd's Register between 1776, and 1784.
HMS Comet (1756) was an 8-gun 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 name given to the 10-gun sloop HMS Diligence after her recommissioning as a fireship in 1779.
HMS Comet was a galley commissioned in 1780 and sold in 1782. On 23 December 1781 the "bomb-galley" Comet participated in an invasion of Georgia.
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.
