HMS Hardy

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HMS Hardy is the name of ten Royal Navy ships, most named after Vice Admiral Sir Thomas Masterman Hardy (1769–1839), who captained HMS Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar.

- HMS Hardy (1797): a 12-gun gunvessel launched in 1797; sold in 1802.
- HMS Hardy (1804): a 12-gun gun-brig launched in 1804; used as a storeship from 1818 and a hospital ship from 1821; sold in 1835.
- HMS Hardy (1855): a mortar vessel launched in 1855; renamed MV 12 later that year; sold in 1858.
- HMS Hardy (1856): an Albacore-class wood screw gunboat launched in 1856; sold in 1869.
- HMS Hardy (1895): a Hardy-class destroyer, later reclassified as an A-class destroyer; launched in 1895; sold in 1911.
- HMS Hardy (1912): an Acasta-class destroyer launched in 1912; scrapped in 1921.
- HMS Hardy (H87): an H-class destroyer launched in 1936; sunk at Narvik in 1940.
- HMS Hardy (R08): a V-class destroyer launched in 1943; damaged by the German submarine U-278 in 1944; later scuttled.
- HMS Hardy (F54): a Blackwood-class frigate launched in 1953; sunk as a target in 1983.

See also HMS Hardi.