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Revision as of 21:16, 11 October 2009
Three ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Brighton, after the seaside town of Brighton.
- HMS Brighton was a 14-gun tender purchased in 1795 and captured by the French in 1797.
- HMS Brighton was a Town-class destroyer launched as the Wickes-class destroyer USS Cowell. She was transferred to the Royal Navy under lend-lease in 1940, and used as a target ship from 1942. She was transferred to the Soviet Navy between 1944 and 1949 as Zharki, and was broken up in 1949.
- HMS Brighton was a Rothesay-class frigate launched in 1959 and scrapped in 1985.
This article includes a list of ships with the same or similar names. If an internal link for a specific ship led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ship article, if one exists.