HMS Brilliant

Nine ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Brilliant.

• HMS Brilliant (1696) was a prize sloop taken in 1696 and sold in 1698.
• HMS Brilliant (1729) was a sloop in service in 1729.
• HMS Brilliant (1757) was a 36-gun fifth rate launched in 1757 and sold in 1776.
• HMS Brilliant (1779) was a 28-gun sixth rate launched in 1779 and broken up in 1811.
• HMS Brilliant was the former name of HMS Orontes, renamed in 1813 and broken up in 1817.
• HMS Brilliant (1814) was a 36-gun fifth rate launched in 1814, renamed Briton in 1889 and sold in 1908.^[1]
• HMS Brilliant (1891) was an Apollo-class light cruiser launched in 1891 and sunk in 1918 as a blockship at Ostend.
• HMS Brilliant (H84) was a B-class destroyer launched in 1930. She served in World War II and was sold in 1947.
• HMS Brilliant (F90) was a Type 22 frigate launched in 1978. She took part in the Falklands War. She was sold to the Brazilian Navy in 1996 and renamed Dodsworth