Four ships of the British

Royal Navy The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against ...

have been named HMS ''Charity'': * , a

fireship A fire ship or fireship, used in the days of wooden rowed or sailing ships, was a ship filled with combustibles, or gunpowder deliberately set on fire and steered (or, when possible, allowed to drift) into an enemy fleet, in order to destroy sh ...

captured from France in 1650 and originally named ''Charité'', expended in 1652. * , a 36 gun 453 ton (builder's measure) ship captured from the Dutch in 1653. Recaptured by the Dutch on 3 June 1665. Also known as HMS ''Great Charity''. * , a sloop operating on the

Great Lakes The Great Lakes, also called the Great Lakes of North America, are a series of large interconnected freshwater lakes in the mid-east region of North America that connect to the Atlantic Ocean via the Saint Lawrence River. There are five lak ...

. Launched in 1770, lost 1777. * , a destroyer launched in July 1943 and sold to the United States in June 1958. The ship was modernised in the United Kingdom before being transferred under the United States Military Aid Program to Pakistan in December 1958. Serving as PNS ''Shah Jahan'' (sometimes written PNS ''Shahjehan'') the ship was scrapped in 1971 after being damaged beyond repairColledge states that the ship was sunk by an Indian

Styx missile The P-15 ''Termit'' (russian: П-15 "Термит"; en, termite) is an anti-ship missile developed by the Soviet Union's MKB Raduga, Raduga design bureau in the 1950s. Its GRAU designation was 4K40, its NATO reporting name was ''Styx'' or SS-N ...

during the Indo-Pakistani War on 4 December 1971.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Charity, Hms Royal Navy ship names