List of survey vessels of the Royal Navy

Active ships

Antarctic patrol vessel

• which carries the survey motor boat James Caird IV.

  Ocean survey vessels

• Coastal survey vessels

• Echo-class multi–purpose survey vessels
• * which carries SMB Sapphire.
• * which carries SMB Spitfire.
• Survey Motor Launch
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  Decommissioned ships

Antarctic patrol vessels

• Ocean survey vessels

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  Coastal survey vessels

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• Inshore survey vessels

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• * HMS Waterwitch
• * HMS Woodlark
• * HMS Mermaid
• * HMS Myrmidon

  Survey Motor Launches (SML)

• SML 2
• SML 4
• SML 6
• SML 322
• SML 323
• SML 324
• SML 325
• SML 326

• Earlier survey vessels

• , the Navy's first hydrographic survey vessel
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