List of ships named Galatea explained

A number of ships have been named Galatea, after the Galatea of mythology.

Naval ships

was a corvette launched in 1831 and decommissioned in 1861
was an launched in 1916 and sold for scrapping in 1946
, a survey ship launched as HMS Leith in 1933, was acquired by Denmark from mercantile service and renamed in 1949; she was sold for scrapping in 1955.

was a 20-gun sixth-rate post-ship launched in 1776 and broken up in 1783.
was a 32-gun fifth rate launched in 1794 and broken up 1809.
was a 36-gun fifth rate launched in 1810, a coal hulk after 1836, and broken up 1849.
was a wooden screw frigate launched in 1859 and broken up 1883. In 1866 she went on a world cruise, under the command of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh.
was an Orlando-class cruiser which was launched in 1887 and sold for scrapping in 1905.
was an Arethusa-class light cruiser launched in 1914 and sold 1921.
was a light cruiser of (another) Arethusa class, launched in 1934, and torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean in 1941.
was a RNVR stone frigate in Kingston upon Hull that was decommissioned in 1958.^[1] ^[2]
was a Leander-class frigate built in 1963 and expended as a target in 1988.

served from 1922 to 1981; she was previously a barque-rigged cargo ship built in 1896, and is now the museum ship Glenlee, berthed in Glasgow.

was a steamship originally built for merchant service but purchased by the navy before completion and converted into a gunboat for service in the American Civil War.
was a private yacht built in 1914 and purchased by the navy for use as an armed patrol boat during World War I.

, of 332 tons (bm) was a sailing vessel launched at Whitby in 1793. She became a West Indiaman and in 1795 participated as a transport in the British invasion of the West Indies. A French privateer captured her in 1801 in sight of Jamaica.
was a 1,400-ton American passenger-cargo coastal steamship.^[3]
Galatea (yacht), built in 1885, was the 1886 America's Cup challenger.
is a lighthouse tender of the United Kingdom launched in 2006.

Web site: Rnvr (Humber Division) . Hansard . 8 October 1946 . 28 December 2018.
Web site: R.N.V.R. (Humber Division) . Hansard . 21 January 1958 . 28 December 2018.
American Lloyd's Register of American and Foreign Shipping 1864. p. 622.