Twelve ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Vesuvius or HMS Vesuve, after the volcano Mount Vesuvius.
It is named for Vesuvius Bay, which was named for HMS Vesuvius, a ship of the Royal Navy assigned to the Pacific Station at Esquimalt in the 19th Century.
HMS Beagle | HMS Victory | Mount Vesuvius | HMS M31 | HMS Bounty | HMS M23 | HMS ''Humber'' | HMS ''Bounty'' | HMS M27 | HMS M25 | HMS Investigator | HMS M33 | HMS ''Beagle'' | HMS Plumper (1848) | HMS Endeavour | HMS ''Victory'' | HMS Royal Charles | HMS Queen Mary | HMS ''Plumper'' | HMS Britannia | Vesuvius | HMS ''Investigator'' | HMS ''Express'' | HMS Duke of Wellington | HMS ''Britannia'' | HMS Ark Royal | Yangtse Incident: The Story of HMS Amethyst | HMS ''Winchelsea'' | HMS Volage | HMS ''Trincomalee'' |