HMS Atherstone

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Three ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Atherstone after the town of Atherstone in Warwickshire, or after its hunt:

HMS Atherstone (1916), launched in 1916, was a Racecourse-class minesweeper that served in World War I.
HMS Atherstone (L05), launched in 1939, was a Hunt-class destroyer that served in World War II.
HMS Atherstone (M38), launched in 1985, was a Hunt-class mine countermeasures vessel.

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Three ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Quorn, all named after the Quorn Hunt.

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Three ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Brocklesby after the Brocklesby hunt:

Three ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Cattistock after the Cattistock hunt:

Three ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Cottesmore after the Cottesmore hunt:

Two ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Middleton after the Middleton hunt:

Two ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Dulverton after the Dulverton hunt:

The Racecourse-class minesweepers were 32 ships delivered to the Royal Navy during the First World War. They were built to two related designs as paddlewheel coastal minesweeping sloops under the Emergency War Programme. The vessels were reasonable sea-boats, but lost speed badly in a seaway when the paddle boxes tended to become choked with water. The class is also widely referred to as the Ascot class and Improved Ascot class.

Two ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Ledbury, named after Ledbury Hunt, Herefordshire:

HMS Atherstone was a Hunt-class mine countermeasures vessel of the Royal Navy, the third ship to bear the name. She was built by Vosper Thornycroft shipbuilders at Woolston, Southampton. She was launched on 1 March 1986 by Mrs Amy Jarvis, the wife of Mr Pat Jarvis, CB, the Deputy Controller of the Navy at the Ministry of Defence, and commissioned on 17 January 1987. She was the tenth ship of her class.

Two ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Satyr, after the figure from mythology:

Two ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Frobisher, after the Elizabethan explorer and adventurer Martin Frobisher:

Two ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Chiddingfold after the fox hunt at Petworth, Sussex:

Two ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Blackmore, named after Blackmore, Essex:

HMS Atherstone was a Hunt-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was launched in late 1939 as the first of her class but was found to be unstable, and had to undergo significant modifications before entering service in March 1940.

Several ships and shore establishments of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Medina, after the River Medina on the Isle of Wight:

Two ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Holderness. They were "Hunt-class" ships of different periods, named after the Holderness Hunt which operates in the Holderness area of Yorkshire.

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