HMS Trident

Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS "Trident" or HMS "Trydent", after the Trident, often associated with the Roman God of the Sea, Neptune:

* HMS "Trydent" was a 58-gun fourth rate ship of the line, previously the French ship "Trident", captured in 1695. She was sunk as a breakwater in 1702.
* HMS "Trydent" was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line, previously the French ship "Trident", captured in 1747 at the Second battle of Cape Finisterre and sold in 1763.
* HMS "Trident" was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line, launched in 1768 at Portsmouth and sold in 1816.
* HMS "Trident" was a sloop built by Ditchburn & Mare in 1845 at Blackwall, and scrapped in 1866.
* HMS "Trident", previously HMS "Offa", was an Turkish "Talisman"-class destroyer under construction in Britain, but taken over by the Royal Navy in the First World War and launched in 1915. She was sold in 1921.
* HMS "Trident" was a T-class submarine built by Cammell Laird, Birkenhead in 1937 and sold in 1947.

In Fiction

* HMS Trident is one of the main ships in John Birmingham's Axis of Time novels, its a Trident-class trimaran stealth destroyer and is under the command of Karen Halabi.