Four ships and two
shore establishments of the
Royal Navy have borne the name HMS ''Forward'':
Ships
* was a 12-gun
gun-brig launched in 1805 and sold in 1815.
* was an wooden screw
gunboat launched in 1855 and sold in 1869.
* was a composite screw gunboat launched in 1877. She became a coal hulk in 1892 and was sold in 1904.
* was a
scout cruiser launched in 1904 and sold in 1921.
Shore establishments
* was the name given to the Navy's base at
Newhaven Newhaven may refer to:
Places
* Newhaven, Derbyshire, England, a hamlet
*Newhaven, East Sussex, England, a port town
* Newhaven, Edinburgh, Scotland
*Newhaven Sanctuary, Northern Territory, Australia
*Newhaven, Victoria, Australia
Other uses
*Ne ...
. It was commissioned on 25 August 1939 and paid off in 1945.
**HMS ''Forward II'' was the
Coastal Forces base at Newhaven between 1941 and 1942, when it was renamed .
* is a
Royal Naval Reserve unit and communications training centre in
Birmingham. It was commissioned in 1984 and is currently active.
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Royal Navy ship names