HMS Badger

Eight ships and one shore establishment of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS "Badger", after the Eurasian Badger:
Ships
* was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1745 and lost in 1762.
* was a 14-gun brig, purchased from civilian service in 1776, where she had been named "Pitt". She was condemned in 1777.
* was a brig purchased in 1777 and sold in 1784.
* was a 3-gun gunvessel, formerly a Dutch hoy, purchased in 1794 and sold in 1804.
* was 10-gun "Cherokee" class brig-sloop launched in 1808. She was used as a mooring vessel from 1835, was beached in 1860 and broken up in 1864.
* was a wood screw gunboat launched in 1854. She was to have been named HMS "Ranger", but was renamed prior to her launch. She was broken up in 1864.
* was an "Ant" class iron screw gunboat launched in 1872 and sold in 1908.
* was an "Acheron" class torpedo boat destroyer launched in 1911 and sold in 1921.
Shore Establishment
* HMS "Badger" was commissioned in 1939 as the headquarters of the Flag Officer In Charge, Harwich. The site was decommissioned in 1946, but the facility remained an emergency port control until 1992.