Four 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 F ...
have borne the name HMS ''Larne'', after the town of
Larne
Larne (, , the name of a Gaelic Ireland, Gaelic territory) is a town on the east coast of County Antrim, Northern Ireland, with a population of 18,755 at the United Kingdom census, 2011, 2011 Census. It is a major passenger and freight Roll-on/ro ...
. A fifth was renamed shortly before being launched:
* was a 20-gun
sixth rate
In the rating system of the Royal Navy used to categorise sailing warships, a sixth-rate was the designation for small warships mounting between 20 and 28 carriage-mounted guns on a single deck, sometimes with smaller guns on the upper works and ...
launched in 1814 and sold in 1828.
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HMS ''Larne'' was an 18-gun
sloop
A sloop is a sailboat with a single mast typically having only one headsail in front of the mast and one mainsail aft of (behind) the mast. Such an arrangement is called a fore-and-aft rig, and can be rigged as a Bermuda rig with triangular sa ...
, launched in 1829 as , renamed HMS ''Larne'' in 1832 and broken up in 1866.
* was an launched in 1910 and sold in 1921.
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HMS ''Larne'' was to have been a
L-class destroyer. She was renamed shortly before her launch in 1940, and was sunk in 1943.
* was an launched in 1943. She was sold to the
Italian Navy
"Fatherland and Honour"
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in 1947 and renamed ''Eritrea'', and then ''Alabarda'' in 1951. She was broken up in 1981.
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Royal Navy ship names