Ten ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS York after the city of York, the county seat of Yorkshire, on the River Ouse.
HMS York (1654), 52-gun Speaker-class frigate launched 1654 as Marston Moor; renamed York upon the Restoration 1660; ran aground and wrecked 1703
HMS York (1706), 60-gun fourth rate launched 1706; sunk 1751 at Sheerness as a breakwater
HMS York (1753), 60-gun fourth rate launched 1753; broken up 1772
HMS York (1777), 12-gun sloop-of-war Betsy captured from the Americans; purchased into the Royal Navy March 1777; captured by the French, 1778; recovered by the British; recaptured by the French, July 1779; renamed Duc D'York; armed with eighteen, 4-pounder guns; broken up 1783[1]
HMS York (1779), was the former East Indiaman Pigot, which the Royal Navy purchased in 1779 for use as storeship in the West Indies; sold in 1781 to local buyers in India.
HMS York (1796), 64-gun third rate, intended to be the East Indiaman Royal Admiral; purchased on the stocks 1796 and converted; wrecked 1804
HMS York (1807), 74-gun third rate launched 1807; converted to a convict ship 1819; broken up 1854
HMS York (1915), a former merchant ship used as an armed boarding steamer in the First World War
HMS York (90), York-class cruiser launched 1928; damaged by Italian motor launches and scuttled in Crete May 1941; scrapped 1952
HMS York (D98), Type 42 destroyer launched 1982; Decommissioned in 2012
Royal Navy have borne the name HMSYork after the city of York, the county seat of Yorkshire, on the River Ouse. HMSYork (1654), 52-gun Speaker-class frigate...
have borne the name HMS Duke of York, after numerous holders of the title of Duke of York (or Duke of York and Albany): HMS Duke of York (1763) was a 4-gun...
the boom defences, the small craft attacked the Royal Navy heavy cruiser HMSYork and the Norwegian tanker Pericles. The Allied vessels were both sunk in...
area.[citation needed] During World War II, the Royal Navy heavy cruiser HMSYork was disabled at Souda Bay by two Italian explosive motorboats (Italian:...
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...
Comfort was a 1,333 GRT convoy rescue ship which was launched in 1944 as HMSYork Castle a Castle-class corvette, but was renamed Empire Castle and converted...
1990, on HMSYork, then Commodore Paul Haddacks from September to December 1990. Finally, Commodore Christopher Craig, on HMS Brave and HMS London, was...
of the Denmark Strait, the battlecruiser HMS Hood initially engaged Prinz Eugen, probably by mistake, while HMS Prince of Wales engaged Bismarck. In the...
HMS Bolebroke HMS Border HMS Calpe HMS Eridge HMS Exmoor HMS Farndale HMS Grove HMS Hambledon HMS Heythrop HMS Hursley HMS Holderness Tribal-class destroyer HMS Somali...
Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Duchess of York or Dutchess of York, in honour of the Duchess of York: Duchess of York was a hired armed cutter that...
of northern Scotland, the first such time it had deployed near the UK. HMSYork shadowed the group for a week; due to severe weather, the group took shelter...
carrier HMS Formidable, the battleships HMS Warspite and HMS Barham, the cruisers HMS Ajax, HMS Dido, HMS Orion, and HMAS Perth, the submarine HMS Rover...
filled by HMS Cardiff, which was decommissioned on return to the UK. As of February 2010, the on-station warship was the Type 42 destroyer HMSYork. In late...
HMS Valiant and HMS Queen Elizabeth (both of which, after months of work, were refloated and returned to action), wrecked the heavy cruiser HMSYork and...
(HMSYork, HMS Gloucester, HMS Exeter, HMS Manchester, HMS Cardiff) Leander-class frigate (HMS Jupiter) Type 22 Broadsword frigate (HMS Battleaxe, HMS Brazen...
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