Four ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS ''Chester'', after the city of

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: * was a 48-gun fourth rate launched in 1691. She was captured by the French in 1707 at the Battle at The Lizard. * was a 50-gun fourth rate launched in 1708. She was on harbour service from 1743 and was broken up in 1750. * was a 50-gun fourth rate launched in 1743 and sold in 1767. * was a light cruiser originally ordered for the Greek Navy in 1914 as ''Lambros Katsonis''. She was taken over before her launch in 1915 and was sold in 1921. There was also a planned named HMS ''Chester Castle''. She was cancelled in 1943. There was also an HMS ''Chester'' serving as a tank (water) vessel in the 1880s - saw service during the Egyptian campaign of 1882 when she was an "attendant" on HMS ''Alexandra''; 21 men (her whole crew?) received the medal for Egypt serving aboard the ship. A fictional HMS ''Chester'' appeared in the James Bond film '' Tomorrow Never Dies''. The interior shots are actually from the Type 23

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. A Type 23 model was built for the exterior shots.

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