HMS Forth

Last updated September 15, 2021

Several ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Forth, after the River Forth:

HMS Forth was to have been a 36-gun fifth rate, but she was renamed HMS Tigris in 1812 before being launched in 1813.
HMS Forth (1813) was a 50-gun fifth rate launched in 1813 and broken up in 1819.^[1]
HMS Forth (1833) was a 44-gun fifth rate launched in 1833. She was converted to a screw frigate and undocked in 1856. She became a coal hulk in 1869 and was renamed HMS Jupiter, before being sold in 1883.
HMS Forth (1886) was a Mersey-class cruiser launched in 1886. She was to have been renamed HMS Howard in 1920, but this did not happen and she was sold in 1921.
HMS Forth (A187) was a submarine depot ship launched in 1938. She was renamed HMS Defiance between 1972 and 1978 and was sold for scrapping in 1985.
HMS Forth (P222) is the first of five new Batch 2 River-class patrol vessels. She was commissioned in 2018.

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References

↑ ""British Fifth Rate frigate 'Forth' (1813)"". Threedecks.

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[1] ""British Fifth Rate frigate 'Forth' (1813)"". Threedecks.

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