Eight ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Jersey after the island of Jersey, part of the Channel Islands; including
HMS Jersey (1654), a frigate commissioned in 1654
HMS Jersey (1694), a sixth-rate commissioned in 1694
HMS Jersey (1698), a frigate commissioned in 1698
HMS Jersey (1736), a frigate commissioned in 1736 and used as a prison ship in the American Revolutionary War
HMS Jersey (1776), a sloop commissioned in 1776
HMS Jersey (1860), a cutter commissioned in 1860
HMS Jersey (F72), a J-class destroyer commissioned in 1939 and sunk in 1941.
HMS Jersey (P295), an Island-class patrol ship commissioned in 1976 and sold to Bangladesh in 1994 as BNS Shaheed Ruhul Amin.
List of ships with the same or similar names
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named HMSJersey after the island of Jersey, part of the Channel Islands; including HMSJersey (1654), a frigate commissioned in 1654 HMSJersey (1694)...
HMS Hood (pennant number 51) was a battlecruiser of the Royal Navy (RN). Hood was the first of the planned four Admiral-class battlecruisers to be built...
dysentery were rife among prisoners. The most infamous prison ship was HMSJersey, which was designed to hold a complement of 400 crewmen but held up to...
of HMS Malaya, HMS Ark Royal, HMS Renown and HMS Sheffield, screened by ten fleet destroyers including HMS Fearless, HMS Foxhound, HMS Foresight, HMS Fury...
of the Denmark Strait, the battlecruiser HMS Hood initially engaged Prinz Eugen, probably by mistake, while HMS Prince of Wales engaged Bismarck. In the...
16 July HMS Kelly (Leader) HMS Jupiter HMS Kipling HMS Jaguar HMSJerseyHMS Kipling HMS Avon Vale HMS Beaufort at Freetown HMS Dulverton HMS Eridge at...
disaster that befell Shovell's flagship, HMS Association at the Isles of Scilly. In November, he joined HMSJersey and in April 1708, took command of the...
when Benedict Arnold defected to the Loyalists. She was imprisoned on HMSJersey, a prison ship, where she may have given birth to a boy named Robert Townsend...
Christopher Vail, of Southold, who was aboard one such prison ship, HMSJersey in 1781, later wrote: When a man died he was carried up on the forecastle...
of the crew of the Royal Louis. The prisoners were all transported to HMSJersey, then moored in Wallabout Bay, later the site of the Brooklyn Navy Yard...
21 March Captain James Hamilton arrived from England with the frigate HMSJersey and the merchantman Deliverance, bringing gunpowder, munition, weapons...
The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal sinking after being torpedoed by a German submarine in November 1941, the assisting destroyer HMS Legion was sunk in...
Barclays Jersey Boat Show. The show is normally attended by a visiting Royal Navy ship and other assets, in 2008, this was HMS Kent. In 2009, HMS York (D98)...
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