HMS Bramble

Seven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Bramble. An eighth was planned but never completed:

• HMS Bramble was a 14-gun ship, formerly an Ostend privateer. She was captured in 1656, converted to a fireship in 1665 and expended against the Dutch in 1667.
• HMS Bramble was a 10-gun schooner launched in 1808 and sold in 1815.
• HMS Bramble was a 10-gun cutter launched in 1822. She was converted to a survey vessel in 1842, lent to the Colonial Department in 1853 as a diving-bell vessel, and sold in 1876.
• HMS Bramble was to have been a Britomart-class wooden screw gunboat laid down in 1861 and cancelled in 1863.
• HMS Bramble was a Bramble-class gunboat launched in 1886 at Harland and Wolff. She was renamed HMS Cockatrice in 1896 and was sold in 1906.
• HMS Bramble was a later Bramble-class gunboat launched in 1898 and sold in 1920.
• HMS Bramble was an Halcyon-class minesweeper launched in 1938 and sunk by German ships in 1942 in the Battle of the Barents Sea.
• HMS Bramble was an Algerine-class minesweeper launched in 1945 and scrapped in 1961.