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Four ships of the [[Royal Navy]] have been named '''HMS ''Brighton''''', after the seaside town of [[Brighton]]. |
Four ships of the [[Royal Navy]] have been named '''HMS ''Brighton''''', after the seaside town of [[Brighton]]. |
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Revision as of 02:36, 22 February 2018
Four ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Brighton, after the seaside town of Brighton.
- HMS Brighton (1795) was a 14-gun tender purchased in 1795 and captured by the French in 1797.
- HMS Brighton (1903), a passenger ferry requisitioned from the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway in 1914, used as a troopship and later as a hospital ship.
- HMS Brighton (I08) was a Template:Sclass2- launched as the Template:Sclass- 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 (F106) was a Template:Sclass- 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.