Three 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 ''Toronto''. A fourth was renamed before being launched: * was a

schooner A schooner () is a type of sailing vessel defined by its rig: fore-and-aft rigged on all of two or more masts and, in the case of a two-masted schooner, the foremast generally being shorter than the mainmast. A common variant, the topsail schoon ...

launched in 1799 and wrecked and subsequently broken up in 1811. * was a schooner listed in 1813 and wrecked in 1817. * was a wooden paddle steamer built as Sir Charles Adam in 1834 purchased in 1838 by the RN from the US and sold in 1843. * HMS ''Toronto'' was to have been an . She was renamed before her launch in 1943, and was broken up in 1957.

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