HMS Rocket
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Eight ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Rocket. Another was planned but never completed:
- HMS Rocket (1804) was a 4-gun fireship, previously the civilian Busy. She was purchased in 1804 and sold in 1807.
- HMS Rocket (1842) was an iron paddle tender launched in 1842 and broken up in 1850.
- HMS Rocket (1855) was a mortar vessel launched in 1855. She was renamed MV20 later that year and was broken up in 1865.
- HMS Rocket (1856) was an Template:Sclass- wooden screw gunboat launched in 1856 and broken up in 1864.
- HMS Rocket (1868) was a Template:Sclass- composite screw gunvessel launched in 1868 and sold in 1888.
- HMS Rocket (1894) was a Template:Sclass- launched in 1894 and sold in 1912.
- HMS Rocket was to have been a Template:Sclass-. She was renamed HMS Lucifer before being launched in 1913.
- HMS Rocket (1916) was an Template:Sclass2- launched in 1916 and sold in 1926.
- HMS Rocket (H92) was a later R-class destroyer launched in 1942, converted to a Type 15 frigate between 1949 and 1951 and scrapped in 1967.