• The first Greyhound was a 45-gun ship built in 1545, rebuilt 1558, and wrecked 1563.
• The second Greyhound was a ship in service in 1585.
• The third Greyhound was a 12-gun ship launched in 1636 and blown up 1656 in action with the Spanish.
• The fourth Greyhound was a 20-gun ship captured from the Royalists in 1657 and used as a fireship in 1666.
• The fifth Greyhound was a 16-gun 6th rate in service from 1672 to 1698.
• The sixth Greyhound was a 6-gun bomb vessel purchased in 1694 and sold 1698.
• The seventh Greyhound was a 20-gun 6th rate launched in 1712 and captured by the Spanish in 1718.
• The eighth Greyhound was a 20-gun 6th rate launched in 1719, in Spanish hands in April 1722, and broken up 1741.
• The ninth Greyhound was a 20-gun 6th rate in service from 1741 to 1768.
• The tenth Greyhound was a 15-gun cutter purchased in 1763, hulked in 1776, and sold 1780.
• The eleventh Greyhound was a 28-gun 6th rate launched in 1773 and wrecked 1780.
• The twelfth Greyhound was a 20-gun cutter purchased in 1780, renamed Viper in 1781, and listed until 1803.
• The thirteenth Greyhound was a 32-gun 5th rate launched 1783 and wrecked 1808.
• The fourteenth Greyhound was a screw sloop launched in 1859, sent to harbour service in 1869, and sold 1906.
• The fifteenth Greyhound was a destroyer in service from 1900 to 1919.
• The sixteenth Greyhound (H-05) was a G class destroyer laid down by Vickers Armstrong Naval Construction Works at Barrow-in-Furness on 20 September 1934, launched on 15 August 1935 and completed on 31 January 1936. Greyhound participated in the Battle of Cape Matapan in March 1941. HMS Greyhound was attacked by enemy German Ju-87 dive bombers as she steamed with the Mediterranean Fleet against the German sea-borne invasion of Crete and sank north-west of Crete on 22 May 1941.
• The seventeenth Greyhound was to be a destroyer, ordered in 1944 but cancelled in December 1945.

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