Active ships
Antarctic patrol vessel
- (2011–) which carries the survey motor boat (SMB) James Caird IV.
Ocean survey vessels
- (1997–)
Coastal survey vessels
- Survey Motor Launch
- (2018–)
Decommissioned ships
Antarctic patrol vessels
- (1955–70)
- (1968–91)
- (1991–2008)
Ocean survey vessels
- (1964–97)
- (1965–90)
- (1966–86)
- (1974–2001)
Coastal survey vessels
- (1968–2002)
- (1968–2001)
- (1968–91)
- (1968–89)
- (1986–2010)
- Echo-class multi–purpose survey vessels
- (2003–2022) which carries SMB Sapphire.
- (2003–2023) which carries SMB Spitfire.
Inshore survey vessels
- (1958–85)
- (1959–85)
- (1959–85)
- HMS Waterwitch (ex–HMS Powderham) (1964–86)
- HMS Woodlark (ex–HMS Yaxham) (1964–86)
- HMS Mermaid (ex–HMS Sullington) (1964–68)
- HMS Myrmidon (ex–HMS Edderton) (1964–68)
Survey Motor Launches (SML)
- SML 2
- SML 4
- (ex–HDML 1387) (1952–1965)
- (1983–2018)
Earlier survey vessels
- (1666–1698), the Navy's first hydrographic survey vessel
- (1839–65)
- (1867–88)
- (1906–14, 1920–24)
- (1913–42)
- (1918–19)
- (1932–53)
- (1939–45)
- (1954–71)
- (1920–35)
- (1920–38)
- (1920–38)
- (1920–38)
- (1923–31)
- HMS Herald (ex–HMS Merry Hampton) (1924–39)
- (1924–36)
- (1936–39)
- (1938)
- (1938)
- (1938–52)
- (1938–39)
- (1938–39)
- (1939–64)
- (1946–50)
- (1946–62) – renamed HMS Shackleton, 1955
- (1948–68)
- (1949–65)
- (1950–64)
- (1950–66)