At least three ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Herring, after the herring, a species of fish:
was a 4-gun launched in 1804 that foundered in July 1813. was an wooden screw gunboat launched in 1856 and broken up in 1865. was an anti-submarine warfare trawler launched in December 1942 and sunk in April 1943 in a collision with the French merchant vessel Cassard north-east of Blyth.