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H.M.S.

American  

abbreviation

  1. Her Majesty's Service.

  2. His Majesty's Service.

  3. Her Majesty's Ship.

  4. His Majesty's Ship.


H.M.S. British  

abbreviation

  1. His ( or Her) Majesty's Service

  2. His ( or Her) Majesty's Ship

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The naturalist, who traveled throughout Chile and South America aboard H.M.S.

From Salon Mar. 15, 2024

That study examined the marine environment surrounding the H.M.S.

From New York Times Oct. 22, 2022

Not as bad as April 28, 1789, was for William Bligh of the H.M.S.

From Washington Post Jul. 5, 2021

“He’s a treasure, an absolute treasure,” said Stein, author of “Discovering the North-West Passage: The Four-Year Arctic Odyssey of H.M.S. investigator and the McClure Expedition.”

From Washington Times Jul. 18, 2020

The afternoon was all Wordsworth, Longfellow, and Coleridge—Turner figured Coleridge would do—and last of all, Mr. Darwin’s Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt

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