HMS Pegasus is a Royal Navy Reserve unit that supports the Fleet Air Arm in times of stretch, crisis, tension and war. It is administered from RNAS Yeovilton (HMS Heron), there is also a satellite office at RNAS Culdrose (HMS Seahawk). Previously the name has been given to nine ships in the British Royal Navy including:
- , a ship sloop, was launched in 1776 but foundered a year later.
- , a 28-gun sixth-rate frigate launched in 1779 and sold in 1816. At one stage her captain was Prince William Henry, later William IV of the United Kingdom.
- , a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line, captured from the French in 1782.
- HMS Pegasus was a wooden-hulled screw gun vessel ordered in 1861 but cancelled in 1863.
- , a 1,140-ton sloop launched in 1878.
- , a 2,135-ton launched in 1897.
- , a 3,300-ton seaplane tender, launched on 9 June 1917.
- , the world's first purpose-built seaplane carrier, commissioned as , but renamed Pegasus in 1934.
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