Two 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 ''Narborough'', after Rear-Admiral
Sir John Narborough. A third was planned, but renamed shortly before being launched:
*
HMS ''Narborough'' was to have been a , originally built for the
Turkish Navy but taken over as HMS ''Narborough'', later renamed and launched in 1915. She was sold in 1921.
* was an launched in 1916 and wrecked in 1918.
* was a launched in 1943 under
lend-lease
Lend-Lease, formally the Lend-Lease Act and introduced as An Act to Promote the Defense of the United States (), was a policy under which the United States supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union and other Allied nations with food, oil, ...
, and returned to the
US Navy
The United States Navy (USN) is the maritime service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. It is the largest and most powerful navy in the world, with the estimated tonnage of ...
in 1946.
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Royal Navy ship names