HMS Nettle explained

Four ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Nettle, after the stinging nettle, a species of flowering plants. A fifth was renamed before being launched.

• was a wooden screw gunboat launched in 1856 and broken up in 1867.
• HMS Nettle was a target ship, formerly the 84-gun second-rate . She had been renamed Comet in 1869, Nettle in 1870, and was sold in 1901.
• was a tender, formerly the War Department's Pennar. She was transferred to the navy in 1905 and was sold in 1934.
• HMS Nettle was to have been a . She was renamed before her launch in 1941.
• HMS Nettle was a tender launched in 1933 as . She was renamed Nettle in 1941, and placed on the sale list in 1957.