List of ships named Galatea

Naval ships

Italian Navy

• , a launched in 1933 and struck in 1948

  Royal Danish Navy

• a corvette launched in 1831 and decommissioned in 1861
• an launched in 1916 and sold for scrapping in 1946
• a survey ship launched as HMS Leith in 1933 she was acquired by Denmark from mercantile service and renamed in 1949; she was sold for scrapping in 1955.

  Royal Navy

• was a 20-gun sixth-rate post-ship launched in 1776 and broken up in 1783.
• was a 32-gun fifth rate launched in 1794 and broken up 1809.
• was a 36-gun fifth rate launched in 1810, a coal hulk after 1836, and broken up 1849.
• was a wooden screw frigate launched in 1859 and broken up 1883. In 1866 she went on a world cruise, under the command of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh.
• was an Orlando-class cruiser which was launched in 1887 and sold for scrapping in 1905.
• was an Arethusa-class light cruiser launched in 1914 and sold 1921.
• was a light cruiser of Arethusa class, launched in 1934, and torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean in 1941.
• was a RNVR stone frigate in Kingston upon Hull that was decommissioned in 1958.
• was a Leander-class frigate built in 1963 and expended as a target in 1988.

  Spanish Navy

• served from 1922 to 1981; she was previously a barque-rigged cargo ship built in 1896, and is now the museum ship Glenlee, berthed in Glasgow.

  United States Navy

• was a steamship originally built for merchant service but purchased by the navy before completion and converted into a gunboat for service in the American Civil War.
• was a private yacht built in 1914 and purchased by the navy for use as an armed patrol boat during World War I.

  Other

• was a 1,400-ton American passenger-cargo coastal steamship.
• Galatea, built in 1885, was the 1886 America's Cup challenger.
• is a lighthouse tender of the United Kingdom launched in 2006.