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Two ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Fleetwood, after the town of Fleetwood. A third ship was planned as Fleetwood, but was renamed before being launched:
Three ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Quorn, all named after the Quorn 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:
Five ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Shoreham after the port town of Shoreham-by-Sea in Sussex:
Adrias was a Type III Hunt-class destroyer that was originally built for the Royal Navy as HMS Border but never commissioned. Before her completion, she was loaned to the Royal Hellenic Navy on 20 July 1942 and commissioned as Adrias on 5 August 1942 in order to relieve heavy losses of ships sustained by the Royal Hellenic Navy during the German invasion of 1941 and throughout the war. Adrias took her name from the ancient Greek town of Adria in Italy, at the mouth of the Po river, after which the Adriatic Sea is named.
Seven ships of the Royal Navy have been named Saltash:
HMS Hurworth is a Hunt-class mine countermeasures vessel of the British Royal Navy.
HMS Aldborough is the name of several Royal Navy vessels:
HMS Blackburn has been the name of two Royal Navy vessels:
HMS Bootle has been the name of two Royal Navy vessels, after the English town.
HMS Elgin has been the name of two Royal Navy vessels:
HMS Forfar has been the name of two Royal Navy ships:
Three vessels of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Faversham after Faversham:
Two ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Exmoor, after the Exmoor fox hunt:
HMS Eridge was a Hunt-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1940 and served during the Second World War.
Three ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Oakley:
HMS Hurworth was a Second World War Type II Hunt-class escort destroyer of the British Royal Navy. She spent most of her career in the Mediterranean. She was lost to a mine in the Aegean Sea in 1943.
Three ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Newark, after the town Newark-on-Trent:
References
Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
