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 ''Torrington'', while the name has also been used for one ship of the navy during the
Commonwealth period:
*
''Torrington'' was a 62-gun ship launched in 1654. She was renamed in 1660, and foundered in 1690.
*
HMS ''Torrington'' was a 32–gun
fifth rate
In the rating system of the Royal Navy used to categorise sailing warships, a fifth rate was the second-smallest class of warships in a hierarchical system of six " ratings" based on size and firepower.
Rating
The rating system in the Royal N ...
launched in 1676 as . ''Charles Galley'' was renamed ''Torrington'' in 1729, was hulked in 1740 and sold in 1744.
* was a 44-gun fifth rate launched in 1743 and sold in 1763.
* 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