HMS Condor

Two vessels and one shore establishment of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Condor after the condor, the largest flying land birds in the Western Hemisphere.

• , a launched in 1876 and sold in 1889. She took part in the bombardment of Alexandria during the 1882 Urabi Revolt in Egypt, while under the command of Lord Charles Beresford.
• , a sloop launched in 1898 and lost off Cape Flattery on the North-West corner of the Continental United States during a storm in December 1901 whilst travelling from Esquimalt in Canada to Honolulu.
• A former Royal Naval Air Station, HMS Condor at Arbroath, near Dundee became RM Condor in 1971. It is the base for 45 Commando, Royal Marines.
• A former Royal Naval Air Station, HMS Condor II at Dundee, known as RNAS Dundee between 1940 and 1944.

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