Ten ships of the
Royal Navy
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have borne the name HMS ''York'' after the city of
York
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, the county seat of
Yorkshire
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, on the
River Ouse.
*, 52-gun launched 1654 as ''Marston Moor''; renamed ''York'' upon the
Restoration
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1660; ran aground and wrecked 1703
*, 60-gun
fourth rate
In 1603 all English warships with a compliment of fewer than 160 men were known as 'small ships'. In 1625/26 to establish pay rates for officers a six tier naval ship rating system was introduced.Winfield 2009 These small ships were divided i ...
launched 1706; sunk 1751 at
Sheerness as a breakwater
*, 60-gun fourth rate launched 1753; broken up 1772
*, 12-gun
sloop-of-war ''Betsy'' captured from the Americans; purchased into the Royal Navy March 1777; captured by the French, 1778; recovered by the British; recaptured by the French, July 1779; renamed ''Duc DYork''; armed with eighteen, 4-pounder guns; broken up 1783
*
HMS ''York'' (1779), was the former
East Indiaman ''Pigot'', which the Royal Navy purchased in 1779 for use as storeship in the
West Indies
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; sold in 1781 to local buyers in India.
*, 64-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 ...
, intended to be the
East Indiaman ''Royal Admiral''; purchased on the stocks 1796 and converted; wrecked 1804
*, 74-gun third rate launched 1807; converted to a convict ship 1819; broken up 1854
*, a former merchant ship used as an
armed boarding steamer
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in the First World War
*, launched 1928; damaged by Italian motor launches and scuttled in
Crete
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May 1941; scrapped 1952
*,
Type 42 destroyer
The Type 42 or ''Sheffield'' class, was a class of fourteen guided-missile destroyers that served in the Royal Navy.Marriott, Leo: ''Royal Navy Destroyers since 1945'', , Ian Allan Ltd, 1989 A further two ships of this class were built for and s ...
launched 1982; Decommissioned in 2012
Battle Honours
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Lowestoft 1665
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Orfordness 1666
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Sole Bay 1672
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Schooneveld 1673
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Texel 1673
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Louisbourg 1758
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Martinique 1809
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Atlantic 1939
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Norway 1940
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*
Mediterranean 1940-41
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Malta Convoys 1941
See also
*,
Canadian Forces Naval Reserve
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division in
Toronto
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,
Ontario
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*, several ships of this name
Citations
References
*Demerliac, Alain (1996) ''La Marine De Louis XVI: Nomenclature Des Navires Français De 1774 À 1792''. (Nice: Éditions OMEGA).
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Royal Navy ship names