Several 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 ''Forth'', after the

River Forth The River Forth is a major river in central Scotland, long, which drains into the North Sea on the east coast of the country. Its drainage basin covers much of Stirlingshire in Scotland's Central Belt. The Gaelic name for the upper reach of th ...

: * HMS ''Forth'' was to have been a 36-gun fifth rate, but she was renamed in 1812 before being launched in 1813. * was a 50-gun fifth rate launched in 1813 and broken up in 1819. * was a 44-gun fifth rate launched in 1833. She was converted to a screw frigate and undocked in 1856. She became a coal hulk in 1869 and was renamed HMS ''Jupiter'', before being sold in 1883. * was a launched in 1886. She was to have been renamed HMS ''Howard'' in 1920, but this did not happen and she was sold in 1921. * was a submarine depot ship launched in 1938. She was renamed HMS ''Defiance'' between 1972 and 1978 and was sold for scrapping in 1985. * is the first of five new Batch 2 s. She was commissioned in 2018.

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