HMS Fitzroy

Last updated December 30, 2021

HMS Fitzroy has been the name of more than one British ship of the Royal Navy, and may refer to:

HMS Fitzroy (J03), a Hunt-class minesweeper completed as a survey ship, later minesweeper, launched in 1919 and sunk in 1942
HMS Fitzroy (K553), a Captain-class frigate, originally a US warship, in commission with the RN from 1943 to 1945

This article includes a list of ships with the same or similar names. If an internal link for a specific ship led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ship article, if one exists.

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