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UNITED KINGDOM Submarines in Her Majesty's service have the prefix HM Submarine (sometimes abbreviated '''HMSm''' or '''HMS/M'''). Similarly, the Royal Yacht ''Britannia'' , which was a commissioned ship in the Royal Navy, was known as '''HMY ''Britannia'''''. Otherwise all ships in the Royal Navy are known as HM Ships, though formerly when a distinction was made between three-masted ship-rigged Ships and smaller vessels they would be called HM Frigate ''X'', or HM Sloop ''Y''. At one time, around the First World War, HMM for '''His Majesty's Monitor''' was used for Monitor Warships HMHV is a prefix that has been used by the Admiralty for '''His Majesty's Hired Vessel'''. The HMS prefix is also used by shore establishments which are commissioned " Stone Frigate s" in the Royal Navy. Examples include HMS ''Excellent'' , which is a training school located on an island in Portsmouth Harbour , and HMS ''Vulcan'' , in Caithness in the Highland area of Scotland , which is established to test the design of Nuclear Power systems for use in Submarine s. The sample ship name used by the the name devolved to the Royal Canadian Navy. HMCS Nonsuch is at present the "stone frigate" of the Edmonton Division of the Canadian Naval Reserve. {Link without Title} British government ships not in the Royal Navy have other designations, such as "RFA" for ships in the Royal Fleet Auxiliary . COMMONWEALTH OF NATIONS Many Commonwealth Realms use a variation of the "HMS" designation.
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