HMS Yarmouth

Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Yarmouth after the Norfolk town and port of Great Yarmouth:

• Template:Ship was a 50-gun ship launched in 1653 and broken up in 1680.
• Template:HMS was a 70-gun third rate launched in 1695. She was rebuilt in 1709, converted to a hulk in 1740 and sold in 1769.
• Template:HMS was a 64-gun third rate launched in 1745. She fought at Cuddalore, Negapatam and Pondicherry and later saw action in the American War of Independence. She was refitted as a 60-gun ship in 1781, used as a receiving ship from 1783 and was broken up in 1811.
• Template:HMS was a lighter launched in 1798. She was rebuilt in 1810, transferred to the coastguard in 1828 and sold in 1835.
• Template:HMS was a Template:Sclass2 light cruiser launched in 1911 and sold in 1929.
• Template:HMS was a Template:Sclass launched in 1959 and expended as a target in 1987.

Battle honours

Ships named Yarmouth have earned the following battle honours: Template:Div col

• Lowestoft 1665
• Four Days' Battle 1666
• Orfordness 1666
• Sole Bay 1672
• Schooneveld 1673
• Texel 1673
• Gibraltar 1704
• Velez Malaga 1704
• Marbella 1705
• Finisterre 1747
• Ushant 1747
• Sadras 1758
• Negapatam 1758
• Porot Novo 1759
• The Saints 1782
• Jutland 1916
• Falklands 1982

References

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|_exclude=case, year, _debug
| 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

}}