HMS Scarborough
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Ten ships of the Royal Navy
have borne the name HMS Scarborough, after the town of Scarborough:
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have borne the name HMS Scarborough, after the town of Scarborough:
- HMS Scarborough was a 10-gun ketchKetchA ketch is a sailing craft with two masts: a main mast, and a shorter mizzen mast abaft of the main mast, but forward of the rudder post. Both masts are rigged mainly fore-and-aft. From one to three jibs may be carried forward of the main mast when going to windward...
launched in 1691 and captured by the French in 1693. - HMS Scarborough was a 32-gun fifth rate frigateFrigateA frigate is any of several types of warship, the term having been used for ships of various sizes and roles over the last few centuries.In the 17th century, the term was used for any warship built for speed and maneuverability, the description often used being "frigate-built"...
launched in 1694. She was captured later that year by the French who renamed her Duc de Chaulnes, but she was recaptured in 1696 and renamed HMS Milford. She was rebuilt in 1705 and wrecked in 1720. - HMS Scarborough was a 32-gun fifth rate launched in 1696 and captured by the French in 1710. She was recaptured in 1712 and renamed HMS Garland. She was sold in 1744.
- HMS Scarborough was a 32-gun fifth rate launched in 1711. She was rebuilt in 1720 as a 20-gun sixth rate and was sold in 1739.
- HMS Scarborough was a hospital shipHospital shipA hospital ship is a ship designated for primary function as a floating medical treatment facility or hospital; most are operated by the military forces of various countries, as they are intended to be used in or near war zones....
purchased in 1739 and sold in 1744. - HMS Scarborough was a 24-gun sixth rate launched in 1740 and sold in 1749.
- HMS Scarborough was a 22-gun sixth rate launched in 1756 and which foundered in 1780.
- HMS ScarboroughHMS Scarborough (1812)HMS Scarborough was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 29 March 1812 at Harwich.Scarborough was sold out of the Navy in 1836....
was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1812 and sold in 1836. - HMS Scarborough was a Hastings classHastings class sloopThe Hastings class, also known as the Folkestone class, was a class of sloop which were built for the Royal Navy and the Royal Indian Navy in the interwar period...
sloopSloop-of-warIn the 18th and most of the 19th centuries, a sloop-of-war was a warship with a single gun deck that carried up to eighteen guns. As the rating system covered all vessels with 20 guns and above, this meant that the term sloop-of-war actually encompassed all the unrated combat vessels including the...
launched in 1930 and sold in 1949. - HMS ScarboroughHMS Scarborough (F63)HMS Scarborough was a Whitby-class or Type 12 anti-submarine frigate of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom. She was named after the town of Scarborough in the county of North Yorkshire....
was a Whitby classWhitby class frigateThe Type 12 frigates of the Whitby class were a six-ship class of anti-submarine warfare frigates of the Royal Navy that entered service late in the 1950s. They were designed as first rate ocean-going convoy escorts in light of experience gained during World War II...
frigateFrigateA frigate is any of several types of warship, the term having been used for ships of various sizes and roles over the last few centuries.In the 17th century, the term was used for any warship built for speed and maneuverability, the description often used being "frigate-built"...
launched in 1955 and sold to Pakistan in 1975. She was not taken over however and was scrapped in 1977.