HMS Brocklesby

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

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Two ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS King George V, after George V, King of the United Kingdom, whilst another was planned:

Two warships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Indomitable:

Several ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Liberty.

Two destroyers of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Obedient:

Seven vessels of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Valiant.

Five vessels of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Turbulent:

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

Hunt-class mine countermeasures vessel

The Hunt class is a class of thirteen mine countermeasure vessels of the Royal Navy. As built, they combined the separate roles of the traditional minesweeper and that of the active minehunter in one hull, but later modifications saw the removal of mine-sweeping equipment. They have a secondary role as offshore patrol vessels.

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

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

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

Seven ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Arrow, after the projectile:

HMS <i>Bramham</i>

HMS Bramham (L51) was a Hunt-class destroyer of the Royal Navy laid down in Alexander Stephen and Sons shipyards Govan, Scotland on 7 April 1941. She was launched on 29 January 1942 and commissioned into the Royal Navy on 16 June 1942. She was named after the Bramham Moor Hunt and has been the only Royal Navy warship to bear the name. She was adopted by the town of Beverley in the East Riding of Yorkshire during the Warship Week savings campaign of 1942.

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

Three ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Arabis, after the flower, the Arabis.

Two ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Eridge:

HMS <i>Brocklesby</i> (L42)

HMS Brocklesby was a Type I Hunt-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She served during the Second World War, spending much of the time in the English Channel and Mediterranean, taking part in the Dieppe Raid in 1942, and the Allied landings in Sicily and at Salerno in 1943. After the war, she was used as a sonar trials ship until 1963, and was sold for scrap in 1968.

Two ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Heythrop: