Eight ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Jackal (or Jackall), after the predatory mammal, the jackal:
was a 10-gun cutter purchased in 1778 and sold in 1785. was a 14-gun cutter purchased in 1779. Later in 1779 eighteen Irish men of her crew mutinied and sailed her to Calais where they sold her for £3,000. She became the French privateer Jackall, Chacal, or Boulogne. recaptured Boullongue on 22 July 1781. She became a privateer. Jackall was captured again in 1782 by . was a 10-gun brig. She was a purchased vessel in service in 1792. was a 12-gun gun-brig launched in 1801 and wrecked on the French coast in 1807; crew taken into captivity. was an iron paddle gunvessel launched in 1844 and sold in 1887. HMS Jackal was a fishery protection vessel purchased in 1885 as . She was renamed HMS Jackal in 1886 and was sold in 1906. was an launched in 1911 and sold in 1920. was a J-class destroyer launched in 1938 and sunk in 1942.
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