His Majesty's Ship

The prefix HMS is also used by shore establishments that are commissioned "stone frigates" in the Royal Navy.

Examples include HMS Excellent, a training school located on an island in Portsmouth Harbour, and HMS Vulcan, in Caithness in the Highland area of Scotland, which is established to test the design of nuclear power systems for use in submarines.

The sample ship name used by the Royal Navy to signify a hypothetical vessel is HMS Nonsuch.

As of 2012[update] HMCS Nonsuch was the "stone frigate" of the Edmonton Division of the Canadian Naval Reserve.

[6] Prefixing the name by "the", as in "the HMS Ark Royal", while common, is considered bad grammar.

Seiner Majestät Schiff (pronounced [ˈzaɪnɐ majɛsˈtɛːt ʃɪf]; German for 'His Majesty's Ship'; abbreviated to S.M.S.

In English, they are given the prefix HNoMS, short for "His/Her Norwegian Majesty's Ship" (HNMS could be also used for the Royal Netherlands Navy, for which HNLMS is used instead).

Prior to World War II, the subsequent ousting of the monarchy of Romania on 30 December 1947 and post-war Soviet occupation, all Royal Romanian Navy vessels were given the prefix NMS which stands for Nava Majestăţii Sale which translates to His/her Majesty’s Ship in English.

In the Royal Swedish Navy, all vessels are given the prefix HMS (Hans or Hennes Majestäts Skepp, His or Her Majesty’s Ship).