Three ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Sprightly:
HMS Sprightly (1777) was a 12 gun cutter built in Dover in August 1777, that sank 23 December 1777 off GuernseyHMS Sprightly (1778) was a 10-gun cutter captured by the Cassard in the Mediterranean in 1801, and subsequently scuttledHMS Sprightly (1900) was a B-class torpedo boat destroyer, launched in 1900 and scrapped in 1920HMS Sprightly (P268) was an S-Class submarine, ordered in 1943 but cancelled because of the end of World War 2See alsoHMAS Sprightly, Royal Australian Navy tugboat