List of survey vessels of the Royal Navy

Active ships

Antarctic patrol vessel

• (2011–) which carries the survey motor boat (SMB) James Caird IV.

Ocean survey vessels

• (1997–)

Coastal survey vessels

• Survey Motor Launch
• (2018–)

Decommissioned ships

Antarctic patrol vessels

• (1955–70)
• (1968–91)
• (1991–2008)

Ocean survey vessels

• (1964–97)
• (1965–90)
• (1966–86)
• (1974–2001)

Coastal survey vessels

• (1968–2002)
• (1968–2001)
• (1968–91)
• (1968–89)
• (1986–2010)
• Echo-class multi–purpose survey vessels
• (2003–2022) which carries SMB Sapphire.
• (2003–2023) which carries SMB Spitfire.

Inshore survey vessels

• (1958–85)
• (1959–85)
• (1959–85)
• HMS Waterwitch (ex–HMS Powderham) (1964–86)
• HMS Woodlark (ex–HMS Yaxham) (1964–86)
• HMS Mermaid (ex–HMS Sullington) (1964–68)
• HMS Myrmidon (ex–HMS Edderton) (1964–68)

Survey Motor Launches (SML)

• SML 2
• SML 4
• SML 6
• SML 322
• SML 323
• SML 324
• SML 325
• SML 326
• (ex–HDML 1301) (1945–1966)
• (ex–HDML 1387) (1952–1965)
• (1983–2018)

Earlier survey vessels

• (1666–1698), the Navy's first hydrographic survey vessel
• (1839–65)
• (1867–88)
• (1906–14, 1920–24)
• (1913–42)
• (1918–19)
• (1932–53)
• (1939–45)
• (1954–71)
• (1920–35)
• (1920–38)
• (1920–38)
• (1920–38)
• (1923–31)
• HMS Herald (ex–HMS Merry Hampton) (1924–39)
• (1924–36)
• (1936–39)
• (1938)
• (1938)
• (1938–52)
• (1938–39)
• (1938–39)
• (1939–64)
• (1946–50)
• (1946–62) – renamed HMS Shackleton, 1955
• (1948–68)
• (1949–65)
• (1950–64)
• (1950–66)

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