HMS York

Ten ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS York after the city of York, the county seat of Yorkshire, on the River Ouse.

, 52-gun launched 1654 as Marston Moor; renamed York upon the Restoration 1660; ran aground and wrecked 1703 , 60-gun fourth rate launched 1706; sunk 1751 at Sheerness as a breakwater , 60-gun fourth rate launched 1753; broken up 1772 , 12-gun sloop-of-war Betsy captured from the Americans; purchased into the Royal Navy March 1777; captured by the French, 1778; recovered by the British; recaptured by the French, July 1779; renamed Duc DYork; armed with eighteen, 4-pounder guns; broken up 1783Demerliac (1996), p.71, #445. HMS York (1779), was the former East Indiaman Pigot, which the Royal Navy purchased in 1779 for use as storeship in the West Indies; sold in 1781 to local buyers in India. , 64-gun third rate, intended to be the East Indiaman Royal Admiral; purchased on the stocks 1796 and converted; lost 1804 , 74-gun third rate launched 1807; converted to a convict ship 1819; broken up 1854 , a former merchant ship used as an armed boarding steamer in the First World War , launched 1928; damaged by Italian motor launches and scuttled in Crete May 1941; scrapped 1952 , Type 42 destroyer launched 1982; Decommissioned in 2012

Battle Honours Lowestoft 1665 Orfordness 1666 Sole Bay 1672 Schooneveld 1673 Texel 1673 Louisbourg 1758 Martinique 1809 Atlantic 1939 Norway 1940 Mediterranean 1940–41 Malta Convoys 1941

HMS York

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