HMS Mercury

Eighteen Royal Navy ships and two schools have borne the name HMS Mercury, or HMS Mercure, after the God Mercury, of Roman mythology HMS Mercury (shore establishment) was a Royal Naval Communications/Signal School sited at Leydene House near Petersfield, Hampshire, in commission from 1941 until 1993.

A subsidiary (HMS Mercury II) was also created.

HMS Mercury (1779) cutting out a French gunboat from Rovigno , 1 April 1809
18 gun ordnance store ship Mercury , Lieut. Heighington R.N. breaking the blockade of Gibraltar in 1782