Three ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Laertes, after either Laertes, a figure in Greek mythology, or Laertes, a character in Shakespeare's Hamlet:
HMS Laertes was a Laforey-class destroyer launched as HMS Sarpedon in 1913, but renamed shortly afterwards. She was sold for breaking up in 1921.
HMT Laertes was an armed merchant trawler of the Royal Navy. She was torpedoed and sunk by U-201 on 25 July 1942 off Freetown, Sierra Leone.
HMS Laertes was an Algerine-class minesweeper launched in 1944 and broken up in 1959.
