Several ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Naiad after a Greek mythological figure, the Naiad
- HMS Naiad (1783) was the French corvette Naiade, which Sceptre, a 64-gun third-rate, captured off Trincomalee on the night of 11 April 1783. Naiade was armed with eighteen to twenty 8-pounder guns and ten swivel guns and had a crew of 160 men. She had a burthen of 640 tons, and measured 126'8" (deck) by 33'8½" (breadth) by 10'2" (hold depth). The British armed her with twenty-two 12-pounder guns, and two 18-pounder and six 12-pounder carronade, but never commissioned her; they then sold her 17 August 1784.
- HMS Naiad (1797) was a Royal Navy fifth-rate frigate tlaunched in 1797 and commissioned in 1798. She was paid off in 1826 and then served for many years in Latin America as a depot ship, first for the Royal Navy and then for the Pacific Steam Navigation Company. She was broken up in 1898.
- HMS Naiad (1890) - Apollo class second class protected cruiser launched in 1890 and sold in 1922
- HMS Naiad (93) — Dido class cruiser which sank 11 March 1942
- HMS Naiad (F39) — Leander class frigate