Two ships and a training establishment of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Vernon, possibly after Admiral Edward Vernon:
- was a 14-gun armed ship listed between 1781 and 1782.
- was a 50-gun fourth rate launched in 1832. She became tender to the Navy's gunnery school , and then the torpedo school ship in 1876. She was renamed HMS Actaeon in 1886 and sold in 1923.
- was the torpedo school established in 1876. She remained in commission until 1996, using a number of different hulked ships as her home until she moved ashore in 1923. Ships that have been named Vernon whilst part of the school include:
- was jointly commissioned as Vernon with the original Vernon in 1876 and was used until 1886.
- was Vernon from 1886.
- was Vernon II from 1895.
- was Vernon III from 1904.
- HMS Actaeon (the original HMS Vernon (1832)) was renamed Vernon IV in 1904.
- HM Trawler Strathcoe was Vernon from January 1934 until November 1938.
- a minelaying tender, was renamed Vernon in 1938.
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