Several Royal Navy

Royal Navy

The Royal Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Founded in the 16th century, it is the oldest service branch and is known as the Senior Service...

 ships have borne the name HMS Proserpine:
was a sloop launched in 1757 and sold in 1763. was a sixth-rate

Sixth-rate

Sixth rate was the designation used by the Royal Navy for small warships mounting between 20 and 24 nine-pounder guns on a single deck, sometimes with guns on the upper works and sometimes without.-Rating:...

 frigate wrecked in a snowstorm on 1 February 1799 on Scharnhonrn Sand near Newmark Island in the Elbe

Elbe

The Elbe is one of the major rivers of Central Europe. It rises in the Krkonoše Mountains of the northwestern Czech Republic before traversing much of Bohemia , then Germany and flowing into the North Sea at Cuxhaven, 110 km northwest of Hamburg...

 with the loss of 14 of her crew. After she had been abandoned, several crew members returned to her and refloated her on 10 February but she grounded again on Baltram Island.

• HMS Proserpine (1798)
  French frigate Bellone (1779)
  The Bellone was an Iphigénie-class 32-gun frigate of the French Navy. She was one of the French ships with a copper-covered hull.In 1782, she fought against HMS Coventry...
  
   was the French frigate Bellone, captured by on 12 October 1798 and taken into Royal Navy service as a 36-gun fifth-rate
  Fifth-rate
  In Britain's Royal Navy during the classic age of fighting sail, a fifth rate was the penultimate class of warships in a hierarchal system of six "ratings" based on size and firepower.-Rating:...
  
   frigate. She was hulked in 1799 and sold for breaking up in 1806. was an launched in 1807. While she was becalmed off Toulon
  Toulon
  Toulon is a town in southern France and a large military harbor on the Mediterranean coast, with a major French naval base. Located in the Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur region, Toulon is the capital of the Var department in the former province of Provence....
  
   on 27 February 1809, she was captured by the French frigates Penelope and Pauline
  French frigate Pauline (1807)
  The Pauline was a 44-gun Hortense class frigate of the French Navy.On 27 February 1809, along with Dubourdieu's Pénélope, she captured the 32-gun HMS Proserpine ....
  
  . was a 46-gun fifth rate sold in 1860. was a built in 1896 and scrapped in 1919.
• HMS Proserpine, a shore naval base at Lyness
  Lyness
  Lyness is a village on the east coast of the island of Hoy, Orkney.During the 1920's Lyness was briefly the headquarters of the metal salvage firm of Cox and Danks's raising of the German High Seas Fleet, scuttled by the Germans on June 21st 1919 during the Armistice.During the Second World War it...
  
   in Orkney used by Scapa Flow
  Scapa Flow
  right|thumb|Scapa Flow viewed from its eastern endScapa Flow is a body of water in the Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, sheltered by the islands of Mainland, Graemsay, Burray, South Ronaldsay and Hoy. It is about...
  
  in World War II.