Nine ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Terror. The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the senior service of the armed services, being the oldest of its three branches. ...

• The first five Terrors were small bomb vessels and gunboats of 4 to 14 guns.
• The sixth Terror was a bomb vessel of 10 guns, launched in 1813, and converted to a discovery vessel in 1836. She and her sister ship Erebus took part in James Clark Ross's expedition to Antarctica from 1839 to 1843. The two ships were converted to screw propulsion in 1844, and took part in John Franklin's expedition to the Arctic in 1845, where they became trapped in ice near King William Island and were abandoned in 1848.
• The seventh Terror was an iron screw floating battery of 16 guns, built in 1856 and sold in 1902.
• The eighth Terror (I03) was a 12-gun Erebus-class monitor launched in 1916. In World War II she served in the Mediterranean, bombarding Axis positions in Libya and carrying water for the British 8th Army. She was sunk by air attack on 1941-02-24
• HMS Terror was also the name of a shore base in Singapore.

A gunboat is literally a boat carrying one or more guns. ... HMS Erebus was a Hecla-class bomb vessel constructed by the Royal Navy in Pembroke Dockyard, Wales in 1826. ... Sir James Clark Ross (April 15, 1800 - April 3, 1862), was a British naval officer and explorer. ... John Franklin (April 15, 1786 - June 11, 1847) was an English sea captain and Arctic explorer, whose fate — and that of his last expedition — was for many years a mystery. ... The red line indicates the 10°C isotherm in July, commonly used to define the Arctic region border The Arctic is the area around the Earths North Pole. ... King William Island, Nunavut . King William Island is a Canadian Arctic island. ... USS Monitor became the prototype of a form of ship built by several navies for coastal defence in the 1860s and 1870s and known as a monitor. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... The Mediterranean Sea is an intercontinental sea positioned between Europe to the north, Africa to the south and Asia to the east, covering an approximate area of 2. ... The Eighth Army was one of the best-known formations in World War II, fighting in the campaigns in North Africa and Italy. ... 1941 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... February 24 is the 55th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ...

References

• J. J. Colledge, Ships of the Royal Navy, Greenhill Books, 1987.