Eight ships of the 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...

 have borne the name HMS Satellite:
was a 16-gun brig-sloop launched in 1806. She foundered in 1810. was an 18-gun Cruizer class

Cruizer class brig-sloop

The Cruizer class was an 18-gun class of brig-sloops of the Royal Navy. Brig-sloops were the same as ship-sloops except for their rigging...

 brig-sloop launched in 1812 and sold in 1824. was an 18-gun sloop

Sloop-of-war

In the 18th and most of the 19th centuries, a sloop-of-war was a warship with a single gun deck that carried up to eighteen guns. As the rating system covered all vessels with 20 guns and above, this meant that the term sloop-of-war actually encompassed all the unrated combat vessels including the...

 launched in 1826 and broken up in 1849. was a paddle gunboat

Gunboat

A gunboat is a naval watercraft designed for the express purpose of carrying one or more guns to bombard coastal targets, as opposed to those military craft designed for naval warfare, or for ferrying troops or supplies.-History:...

 launched in 1840 and listed until 1860. was a wooden Pearl-class screw corvette

Corvette

A corvette is a small, maneuverable, lightly armed warship, originally smaller than a frigate and larger than a coastal patrol craft or fast attack craft , although many recent designs resemble frigates in size and role...

 launched in 1855 and broken up in 1879. was a Satellite-class

Satellite class sloop

The Satellite class was a class of 12-gun composite sloops built for the Royal Navy between 1883 and 1888, and reclassified as corvettes in 1884.-Design:...

 composite screw corvette launched in 1881. She was used as a drill ship for the Royal Naval Reserve

Royal Naval Reserve

The Royal Naval Reserve is the volunteer reserve force of the Royal Navy in the United Kingdom. The present Royal Naval Reserve was formed in 1958 by merging the original Royal Naval Reserve and the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve , a reserve of civilian volunteers founded in 1903...

 from 1904 and was sold in 1947.

• HMS Satellite was an Algerine class
  Algerine class minesweeper
  The Algerine-class was a class of minesweepers of the Royal Navy and the Commonwealth. 110 ships of the class were launched between 1942 and 1944 and served in World War II....
  
   minesweeper launched in 1942 as . She was renamed HMS Satellite on becoming a drill ship in 1947. The name reverted back to Melita in 1951, and she was sold for scrapping in 1959.
• HMS Satellite was an Algerine class minesweeper launched in 1943 as . She was renamed HMS Satellite on becoming a drill ship in 1951, and was sold in 1958.