HMS Hastings

Last updated March 13, 2024

Seven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Hastings, after the town of Hastings. Another two were planned, but renamed before entering service:

HMS Hastings (1695) was a 32-gun fifth rate launched in 1695 and wrecked in 1697.
HMS Hastings (1698) was a 32-gun fifth rate launched in 1698. She capsized in 1707.
HMS Hastings (1707) was a 44-gun fifth rate launched in 1707, hulked in 1739 and sold in 1744 to become a privateer.
HMS Hastings (1741) was a 44-gun fifth rate originally planned as HMS Endymion, but renamed in 1739 and launched in 1741. She was broken up in 1763.
HMS Hastings (1819) was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line, previously in service as an East Indiaman. She was purchased in 1819, converted to screw propulsion in 1855, used as a coal hulk from 1870 and was sold in 1885.
HMS Hastings (1821) was a 32-gun fifth rate launched in 1821 and broken up in 1855.
HMS Hastings (L27) was a Hastings-class sloop launched in 1930 and broken up in 1946.
HMS Hastings (1956) was to have been a Rothesay-class frigate. She was transferred to the Royal New Zealand Navy in 1957 and renamed HMNZS Otago, being launched in 1958.
HMS Hastings was originally planned as a Rothesay-class frigate. This hull was ultimately cancelled and reordered as the Leander-class frigate HMS Dido.

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