Eight ships and a shore establishment of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Centurion, after the centurions of ancient Rome. A ninth ship was planned but never built.

Ships

  • was a 34-gun ship launched in 1650 and wrecked in 1689.
  • was a 48-gun fourth-rate launched in 1691 and broken up in 1728.
  • was a 60-gun fourth-rate launched in 1732 and broken up 1769 after George Anson's voyage around the world
  • was a 50-gun fourth-rate launched in 1774. She was reduced to harbour service in 1809, sank at her moorings in 1824, and was raised and broken up in 1825.
  • HMS Centurion was a 74-gun third-rate launched in 1812 as . She was renamed HMS Centurion in 1826 and was broken up in 1828.
  • was an 80-gun third-rate launched in 1844. She was converted to screw propulsion in 1855, and sold in 1870.
  • was a Centurion-class battleship launched in 1892 and sold in 1910.
  • was a King George V-class battleship launched in 1911. She was converted to a target ship in 1926, rated as an escort ship in 1940, and was sunk off Arromanches as a breakwater in 1944.
  • HMS Centurion was to have been a 9,000 ton cruiser, planned in 1945, but cancelled in 1946.

Shore establishment

  • was the central drafting depot established at Haslemere in 1956, commissioned in 1957 and named in 1964. The base moved to Gosport, becoming a drafting depot and a pay and accounting centre, in 1970. It was paid off in 1994, becoming Centurion building, a tender to , mainly responsible for personnel and Human Resources functions.

Battle honours

Ships named Centurion have earned the following battle honours:

  • Armada, 1588
  • Cadiz, 1596
  • Dover, 1652
  • Portland, 1653
  • Gabbard, 1653
  • Scheveningen, 1653
  • Santa Cruz, 1657
  • Lowestoft, 1665
  • Four Days' Battle, 1666
  • Orfordness, 1666
  • Barfleur, 1692
  • Velez Malaga, 1704
  • Marbella, 1705
  • Nuestra Senora de Covadonga, 1743
  • Finisterre, 1747
  • Louisbourg, 1758
  • Quebec, 1759
  • Havana, 1762
  • St. Lucia, 1778
  • China, 1900
  • Jutland, 1916
  • Normandy, 1944