Seven ships of the
Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Termagant, after
Termagant, a god that Medieval Europeans believed Muslims worshipped, and that later came to be popularised by
Shakespeare to mean a bullying person:
HMS Termagant (1822) was a 28-gun sixth rate launched in 1822. She was renamed
HMS Herald in 1824. when she became a survey ship. She was sold in 1862.
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list of ships with the same or similar names. If an
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