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 ''Seaford'', after the coastal town of
Seaford, now in
East Sussex
East Sussex is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in South East England on the English Channel coast. It is bordered by Kent to the north and east, West Sussex to the west, and Surrey to the north-west. The largest settlement in East Su ...
. A fifth was planned, but was not completed for the navy:
* was a 24-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 ...
purchased in 1695 and captured by the French in 1697.
* was a 24-gun sixth rate launched in 1697, rebuilt in 1724 and broken up in 1740.
* was a 24-gun sixth rate launched in 1741 and broken up by 1754.
* was a 20-gun sixth rate launched in 1754, participated in the
Battle of Manila (1762)
The Battle of Manila ( fil, Labanan sa Maynila ng mga Kastila at Ingles; es, Batalla de Manila) was fought during the Seven Years' War, from 24 September 1762 to 6 October 1762, between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Spain in a ...
, and sold in 1784.
*
HMS ''Seaford'' was to have been a . She was laid down in 1941, renamed later that year, and captured while under construction by the Japanese during the
Fall of Hong Kong
The Battle of Hong Kong (8–25 December 1941), also known as the Defence of Hong Kong and the Fall of Hong Kong, was one of the first battles of the Pacific War in World War II. On the same morning as the attack on Pearl Harbor, forces of the ...
in late 1941. She was completed by them and launched as ''102''. Returned to the Royal Navy in 1947, she was scrapped in 1948.
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Royal Navy ship names