A number of 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 been named HMS ''Stirling Castle'' (sometimes spelled 'Sterling') after
Stirling Castle
Stirling Castle, located in Stirling, is one of the largest and most important castles in Scotland, both historically and architecturally. The castle sits atop Castle Hill, an intrusive crag, which forms part of the Stirling Sill geological ...
in Scotland, including:
* , a 70-gun
third-rate
In the rating system of the Royal Navy, a third rate was a ship of the line which from the 1720s mounted between 64 and 80 guns, typically built with two gun decks (thus the related term two-decker). Years of experience proved that the third r ...
ship of the line
A ship of the line was a type of naval warship constructed during the Age of Sail from the 17th century to the mid-19th century. The ship of the line was designed for the naval tactic known as the line of battle, which depended on the two colu ...
, launched in 1679, and lost off Ramsgate in Kent in 1703.
* , a 70-gun third-rate ship of the line launched in 1705, hulked in 1739 and broken up in 1771.
* , a 70-gun third-rate ship of the line launched in 1742 and lost in 1762.
* , a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line launched in 1775 and lost in 1780.
* , a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line launched in 1811, and hulked in 1839.
* , an auxiliary patrol paddler launched in 1900, and sunk in the Mediterranean in 1916.
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Royal Navy ship names