Three ships of the Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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 have borne the name HMS Canterbury, after the English

England

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 city of Canterbury

Canterbury

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was an 8-gun storeship purchased in 1692 and foundered in 1703. She was raised and then sold. was a 60-gun fourth rate launched in 1693. She was rebuilt in 1722 and 1744, when she was rearmed to carry 58 guns. She was on harbour service from 1761 and was broken up in 1770. was a C class

C class cruiser

The C class was a group of twenty-eight light cruisers of the Royal Navy, and were built in a sequence of seven classes known as the Caroline , Calliope , Cambrian , Centaur , Caledon , Ceres and Carlisle classes...

 light cruiser

Light cruiser

A light cruiser is a type of small- or medium-sized warship. The term is a shortening of the phrase "light armored cruiser", describing a small ship that carried armor in the same way as an armored cruiser: a protective belt and deck...

 launched in 1915 and sold in 1934.

There was also HMS Canterbury Castle, a planned Castle class corvette

Castle class corvette

The Castle-class corvettes were an updated version of the much more numerous Flower-class corvettes of the Royal Navy, and started appearing during late 1943...

, cancelled in 1943.

See also

• Ships of the Royal New Zealand Navy
  Royal New Zealand Navy
  The Royal New Zealand Navy is the maritime arm of the New Zealand Defence Force...
  
   named HMNZS Canterbury
  HMNZS Canterbury
  Two ships of the Royal New Zealand Navy have been named HMNZS Canterbury after the Canterbury region of New Zealand:, was a Leander-class frigate that served from 1971 to 2005, and was sunk as a dive wreck in 2007., a sealift ship commissioned in 2007....
  
  , after the region of Canterbury
  Canterbury, New Zealand
  The New Zealand region of Canterbury is mainly composed of the Canterbury Plains and the surrounding mountains. Its main city, Christchurch, hosts the main office of the Christchurch City Council, the Canterbury Regional Council - called Environment Canterbury - and the University of Canterbury.-...
  
  , New Zealand
  New Zealand
  New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
  
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