HMS Providence explained

Eleven ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Providence. Another was intended to bear the name:

Ships with the name

was a 30-gun ship launched in 1637 and wrecked in 1668.
was a 6-gun fireship purchased in 1665 and sunk in action in 1666.
was a 6-gun fireship purchased in 1672 and lost in 1673.
was an 8-gun fireship purchased in 1678 and sold in 1686.
was a 12-gun sloop captured from the Americans in 1779 and listed until 1780.
was a 28-gun fifth-rate, previously the American . She was captured in 1780 and sold in 1784.
was a 16-gun storeship purchased in 1782 and sold in 1784.
was a 12-gun sloop launched in 1791 and wrecked in 1797.
was a 14-gun schooner purchased in 1796 and expended as a fireship in 1804.
HMS Providence was to have been a cutter tender. She was launched as in 1817, but was ordered to be renamed HMS Providence in 1822. The renaming was cancelled however.
was a Coastguard cutter launched in 1866 and sold in 1870.
was an built as but renamed before being launched in 1943. She was scrapped in 1958.

In the 2011 film , the fictional HMS Providence appears as Hector Barbossa's privateer frigate. That ship was played by .
In Assassin's Creed III the ship that takes the protagonist, Haytham Kenway, to Boston is a British merchant ship named Providence.