title: HMS Wave
text: # HMS Wave
  
  Five ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Wave:
  
  * HMS Wave (1856) an Albacore-class wooden screw gunboat launched in 1856, renamed Clinker in 1882 and sold in 1890
  * HMS Wave (1882) a tender purchased in 1882 and sold in 1907
  * HMS Wave (1914) a despatch vessel purchased in 1914, renamed Wayward in 1919 and foundered under tow in 1922
  * HMS Wave a W-class destroyer cancelled in 1918
  * HMS Wave (J385) an Algerine-class minesweeper launched in 1944 and scrapped in 1962
  