HMS London

Thirteen ships of the Royal Navy have been named London, after the city of London:

• Template:Ship was a 40-gun East Indiaman purchased in 1636 and listed until 1653
• Template:Ship was a 64-gun second-rate ship launched in 1656 and blown up in an accident in 1665
• Template:HMS was a 96-gun second-rate ship launched in 1666: she was partly destroyed by fire by the Dutch in the Medway in 1667, but the remains were rebuilt becoming the next HMS London
• Template:HMS was a 96-gun first-rate ship launched in 1670 to replace the previous ship of the same name: rebuilt in 1706 and 1721, and was broken up in 1747
• Template:HMS was a 16-gun brig launched in 1756 on Lake Ontario and captured by the French the same year
• Template:HMS was a 6-gun Herring buss (formerly the civilian fisheries vessel Holden), purchased in 1756 from the Society for the Free British Fishery and burnt to avoid capture in 1758
• Template:HMS was a 6-gun busse purchased in 1759 and in the records until 1764
• Template:HMS was a 90-gun second rate, launched in 1766 and broken up in 1811
• HMS London was to have been a 104-gun first rate: she was renamed Template:HMS in 1827, launched in 1828, and sold in 1905
• Template:HMS was a 92-gun second rate launched in 1840: converted to screw propulsion in 1858 and rearmed to 72 guns, became a harbour storeship in 1874, was re-commissioned in 1878 and sold in 1884
• Template:HMS was the lead ship of the Template:Sclasss launched in 1899, converted to a minelayer in 1918 and sold in 1920
• Template:HMS was a Template:Sclass2 heavy cruiser launched in 1927 and sold in 1950
• Template:HMS was a Template:Sclass2 guided missile destroyer launched in 1961 and transferred to Pakistan in 1982, where she was renamed Babur
• Template:HMS was a Type 22 frigate launched in 1984, sold to Romania in 2002 and renamed Regina Maria
• Template:HMS will be the name of one of the eight Type 26 frigates<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Battle honours

• Kentish Knock, 1652
• Gabbard, 1653
• Scheveningen, 1653
• Lowestoft, 1665
• Sole Bay, 1672
• Schooneveld, 1673
• Texel, 1675
• Barfleur, 1692
• Chesapeake, 1781
• Groix, 1795
• Copenhagen, 1801
• Marengo, 1806
• Crimea, 1854−55
• Dardanelles, 1915
• Atlantic, 1941
• Arctic, 1941−43
• East Indies, 1944−45
• Kuwait, 1991

See also

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• HM Hired armed ship Template:Ship
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References

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| last1 = Colledge
| first1 = J. J. 
| author-link1= J. J. Colledge
| last2 = Warlow
| first2 = Ben
| date = 2006
| orig-date = 1969
| title = Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of All Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy from the 15th Century to the Present
| edition = Rev.
| location = London
| publisher = Chatham Publishing
| isbn = 978-1-86176-281-8
| OCLC = 67375475

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