HMS Fantome explained

Five ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Fantome, after the French word Fantôme, meaning 'ghost':

• was an 18-gun French privateer brig-sloop, captured in 1810 by and wrecked in 1814.
• was a 16-gun launched in 1839 and sold in 1864.
• was a composite screw sloop launched in 1873 and sold in 1889.
• was a sloop launched in 1901. She was used as a survey ship from 1906 and was sold in 1925.
• was an launched in 1942 and scrapped in 1947.