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Petrel can refer to

  • Petrel, a type of tube-nosed seabird

Aviation and rocketry

  • Percival Petrel, a 1930s British communications aircraft
  • Petrel (rocket), a British sounding rocket
  • AUM-N-2 Petrel, an antisubmarine missile used by the U.S. Navy in the 1950s, later designated AQM-41A as a target drone

Ships

  • USS Petrel, a name used by four United States Navy ships
  • HMS Peterel, an archaic form of "Petrel" used as a name by seven Royal Navy ships
  • MV Petrel, a United States Bureau of Fisheries patrol boat in service from 1919 to 1934 that previously served in the United States Navy as USS Cobra (SP-626)
  • RV Petrel, a research vessel
  • Petrel (ship, 1928), a whaler, built in Oslo, left to rust after being beached in Grytviken, South Georgia

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