Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Looe, after the Cornish town of Looe. A seventh was planned but never completed:
HMS Looe (1696) was a 32-gun fifth rate launched in 1696 and wrecked in 1697.
HMS Looe (1697) was a 32-gun fifth rate launched in 1697 and wrecked in 1705.
HMS Looe (1707) was a 42-gun fifth rate launched in 1707. She was reduced to harbour service in 1735 and was sunk as a breakwater in 1737.
HMS Looe (1741) was a 44-gun fifth rate launched in 1741 and wrecked in 1744.
HMS Looe (1745) was a 44-gun fifth rate launched in 1745 and sunk as a breakwater in 1759.
HMS Looe (1759) was a 30-gun fifth rate, formerly the privateer Liverpool. She was purchased in 1759 and sold in 1763.
HMS Looe, ex-Beauty built 1924, became a Q-ship in World War II
HMS Looe was to have been a Bangor-class minesweeper. She was laid down in 1941, renamed HMS Lyemun on the stocks, but was captured that year by the Japanese. She was completed as Nan Yo in 1943, and was lost later that year.
List of ships with the same or similar names
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Royal Navy have borne the name HMSLooe, after the Cornish town of Looe. A seventh was planned but never completed: HMSLooe (1696) was a 32-gun fifth rate...
30-gun HMSLooe (1759). She was sold in 1763. HMS Liverpool (1758) was a 28-gun sixth-rate frigate launched in 1758 and wrecked in 1778. HMS Liverpool (1814)...
Looe Key is designated as "Research Only," an area which protects some of the patch reefs landward of the main reef. The reef is named after HMSLooe...
the headline "H.M.S St. George. Nazi Airman's Direct Hit Off Looe – Another 'Success' for the Luftwaffe". The article continued "H.M.S St. George is still...
HMS Milford 1695 HMS Arundel 1695 HMS Rye 1696 HMS Scarborough 1696 HMSLooe (i) 1696 HMS Lynn 1696 HMS Fowey 1696 HMS Southsea Castle (i) 1696 HMS Gosport...
of the Baltimore Harbour went into ruin. The wreck of a 17-century ship HMSLooe lies at the base of the beacon cliff. The decision to declassify the beacon...
Benson-class destroyer that was sunk off Key West in tests, in 320 fsw. HMSLooe Royal Navy 5 February 1744 A frigate that ran aground off Big Pine Key...
them. Fowey Rocks is named after HMS Fowey, which, however, actually wrecked on Ajax Reef. Looe Key is named after HMSLooe. Alligator Reef is named after...
1716, and obtained a promotion to lieutenant in 1722. Lee became captain of HMS Falkland in 1734 and was commissioned Governor of Newfoundland in May 1735...
employed on convoy duty. In 1760 he transferred to the newly completed 44-gun HMSLooe. On this ship he captured the Jupiter in June 1762. Soon after he captured...
Postboy and Messenger; the first warship is launched in 1696, fifth-rate HMSLooe. 1696 – Work starts on Henry Winstanley's first Eddystone Lighthouse, 12...
Ship State Description HMSLooe Royal Navy War of Jenkins' Ear: The fifth rate ran aground on a reef, later to be known as Looe Key, off the coast of Spanish...
of Looe Island until his uncles return.' On Saturday 20 January 1934, Lewis gave a talk on the legend of Lammana at the monthly meeting of the Looe Old...
(11 km) east of Fowey and 4 miles (6 km) west of the neighbouring town of Looe and 25 miles (40 km) west of the major city and naval port of Plymouth. It...
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