Eight ships of the
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 ''Jersey'' after the island of
Jersey
Jersey ( , ; nrf, Jèrri, label= Jèrriais ), officially the Bailiwick of Jersey (french: Bailliage de Jersey, links=no; Jèrriais: ), is an island country and self-governing Crown Dependency near the coast of north-west France. It is the l ...
, part of the
Channel Islands
The Channel Islands ( nrf, Îles d'la Manche; french: îles Anglo-Normandes or ''îles de la Manche'') are an archipelago in the English Channel, off the French coast of Normandy. They include two Crown Dependencies: the Bailiwick of Jersey, ...
; including
* , a frigate commissioned in 1654
* , a sixth-rate commissioned in 1694
* , a frigate commissioned in 1698
* , a frigate commissioned in 1736 and used as a prison ship in the American Revolutionary War
* , a sloop commissioned in 1776
* , a cutter commissioned in 1860
* , a J-class destroyer commissioned in 1939 and sunk in 1941.
* , an Island-class patrol ship commissioned in 1976 and sold to Bangladesh in 1994 as BNS ''Shaheed Ruhul Amin''.
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Royal Navy ship names