HMS Chester

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Four ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Chester, after the city of Chester:

There was also a planned Castle-class corvette named HMS Chester Castle. She was cancelled in 1943.

There was also an HMS Chester serving as a tank (water) vessel in the 1880s - saw service during the Egyptian campaign of 1882 when she was an "attendant" on HMS Alexandra; 21 men (her whole crew?) received the medal for Egypt serving aboard the ship.

A fictional HMS Chester appeared in the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies . The interior shots are actually from the Type 23 frigate HMS Westminster. A Type 23 model was built for the exterior shots.

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