Several ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Partridge, after the bird.
The first Partridge was an 18 gun sloop launched at Dartmouth on 15 July 1809 and broken up in September 1816.The second Partridge was a 10 gun Cherokee-class brig-sloop launched at Plymouth Dockyard on 22 March 1822 and stranded aground off the Dutch island of Vlieland on 28 November 1824.The third Partridge was another 10 gun Cherokee-class brig-sloop, launched at Pembroke on 12 October 1829. Recommissioned as a coastguard watchvessel (WV32) on 25 May 1863 the ship was sold at Southampton on 2 February 1864.The fourth Partridge was an Albacore-class wooden screw gunboat launched at Nartham on 29 March 1856 and sold for breaking up on 8 September 1864.The fifth Partridge was a composite screw gunboat launched at Devonport Dockyard on 10 May 1888 and sold in 1909.The sixth Partridge was an Admiralty M class destroyer launched on 4 March 1916 and sunk by German destroyers in the North Sea on 12 December 1917.The seventh Partridge was a P class destroyer launched at Govan on 5 August 1941 and sunk by the German submarine U-565 commanded by Wilhelm Franken in the Mediterranean on 18 December 1942.Partridge was a sloop ordered from J. I. Thorneycroft & Co on 9 October 1944 but cancelled in October 1945.