HMS Rye

Last updated October 16, 2021

Six ships of the Royal Navy have had the name HMS Rye, named after the town of Rye, East Sussex one of the Cinque Ports:

HMS Rye (1696) was a 32-gun fifth rate launched in 1696. She was rebuilt in 1717 as a 24-gun sixth rate and used as a breakwater from 1727. She was broken up in 1735.
HMS Rye (1727) was a 24-gun sixth rate launched in 1727 and broken up in 1735.
HMS Rye (1740) was a 24-gun sixth rate launched in 1740 and wrecked in 1744.
HMS Rye (1745) was a 24-gun sixth rate launched in 1745 and sold in 1763.
HMS Rye was to have been a wood screw gunvessel. She was ordered in 1860, but cancelled in 1863.
HMS Rye (J76) was a Bangor-class minesweeper launched in 1940 and sold in 1948.

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