HMS Investigator

Nine ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS "Investigator". Another was planned, but renamed before being launched:

*HMS|Investigator|1798|6 was a 22-gun armed ship purchased in 1798 and taken into service as HMS "Xenophon". She was renamed HMS "Investigator" in 1801 and used as a survey ship. She was broken up in 1810.
*HMS|Investigator|1811|6 was a 16-gun survey brig launched in 1811. She was used as a police ship from 1837 and was broken up in 1857.
*HMS|Investigator|1823|6 was a survey sloop purchased in 1823. Her fate is unknown.
*HMS|Investigator|1848|6 was a discovery vessel purchased in 1848 and abandoned in the Arctic in 1853.
*HMS|Investigator|1861|6 was a wooden paddle survey vessel launched in 1861 and sold in 1869.
*HMS|Investigator|1881|6 was a wooden paddle survey vessel launched in 1881 and sold in 1906.
*HMS "Investigator" was to have been a paddle survey vessel. She was renamed HMS|Research|1888|6 in 1887, before being launched in 1888.
*HMS|Investigator|1903|6 was a survey vessel purchased in 1903. She was renamed HMS "Sealark" in 1904 and was sold in mercantile service in 1919.
*HMS|Investigator|1907|6 was a survey vessel launched in 1907 and sold in 1934.
*HMIS "Investigator" was a survey vessel of the Royal Indian Marine purchased in 1934 and sold in 1951.

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*HMS|Trent|K243|6 was renamed "Investigator" in 1951 after being converted to a survey ship for the Indian Navy.