HMS Lightning

HMS Lightning was the name of ten ships of the Royal Navy, the name means lightning :

• HMS Lightning (1691) , an incendiary ship with 8 cannons, launched in 1691, captured by France in 1705
• HMS Lightning (1740) , a mortar ship with 8 cannons, launched in 1740, captured near Livorno in 1746
• HMS Viper (1746) , a sloop with 14 guns, launched in 1746, converted into an incendiary ship in 1755 and renamed the Lightning , sold in 1762
• HMS Sylph (1776) , a sloop with 14 guns, bought in 1776, converted into an incendiary ship in 1779 and renamed the Lightning , sold in 1783
• HMS Lightning (1806) , an incendiary ship, launched in 1806, converted into a sloop in 1808, sold in 1816
• HMS Lightning (1823) , a paddle steamer , launched in 1823, scrapped in 1872
• HMS Lightning (1829) , an 18-cannon sloop, launched in 1829, renamed Larne in 1832 , scrapped in 1866
• HMS Lightning (1876) , a torpedo boat , launched in 1876, later in Torpedo Boat No. 1 renamed, scrapped 1896
• HMS Lightning (1895) , a destroyer , launched in 1895, hit a sea mine in 1915 and sunk
• HMS Lightning (G55) , a destroyer, launched in 1940, sunk in the Strait of Sicily by the S-55 speedboat on March 12, 1943