HMS York

Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Ten ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS York after the city of York, the county seat of Yorkshire, on the River Ouse.

• Template:HMS, 52-gun Template:Sclass launched 1654 as Marston Moor; renamed York upon the Restoration 1660; ran aground and wrecked 1703
• Template:HMS, 60-gun fourth rate launched 1706; sunk 1751 at Sheerness as a breakwater
• Template:HMS, 60-gun fourth rate launched 1753; broken up 1772
• Template:HMS, 12-gun sloop-of-war Betsy captured from the Americans; purchased into the Royal Navy March 1777; captured by the French, 1778; recovered by the British; recaptured by the French, July 1779; renamed Duc DTemplate:'York; armed with eighteen, 4-pounder guns; broken up 1783<ref>Demerliac (1996), p.71, #445.</ref>
• HMS York (1779), was the former East Indiaman Pigot, which the Royal Navy purchased in 1779 for use as storeship in the West Indies; sold in 1781 to local buyers in India.
• Template:HMS, 64-gun third rate, intended to be the East Indiaman Royal Admiral; purchased on the stocks 1796 and converted; wrecked 1804
• Template:HMS, 74-gun third rate launched 1807; converted to a convict ship 1819; broken up 1854
• Template:HMS, a former merchant ship used as an armed boarding steamer in the First World War
• Template:HMS, Template:Sclass launched 1928; damaged by Italian motor launches and scuttled in Crete May 1941; scrapped 1952
• Template:HMS, Type 42 destroyer launched 1982; Decommissioned in 2012

Battle Honours

• Lowestoft 1665
• Orfordness 1666
• Sole Bay 1672
• Schooneveld 1673
• Texel 1673
• Louisbourg 1758
• Martinique 1809
• Atlantic 1939
• Norway 1940
• Mediterranean 1940–41
• Malta Convoys 1941<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

See also

• Template:HMCS, Canadian Forces Naval Reserve division in Toronto, Ontario
• Template:HMS, several ships of this name

References

• Demerliac, Alain (1996) La Marine De Louis XVI: Nomenclature Des Navires Français De 1774 À 1792. (Nice: Éditions OMEGA). Template:ISBN