Seven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Termagant, after Termagant, a god that Medieval Europeans believed Muslims worshipped, and that later came to be popularised by Shakespeare to mean a bullying person:
HMS Termagant (1822) was a 28-gun sixth rate launched in 1822. She was renamed HMS Herald in 1824. when she became a survey ship. She was sold in 1862.