Four ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Escort:
was a 14-gun sloop, formerly a French privateer. She was captured in 1757 and sold in 1768. was a 12-gun gun-brig launched in 1801 and transferred to Customs in 1815. was an wooden screw gunboat launched in 1856 and broken up in 1865. was an E-class destroyer launched in 1934. She was torpedoed in 1940 and foundered three days later.
See also: Escort (1873) was an iron paddle dockyard tug, built by John Laird, Sons & Co., Birkenhead, and wrecked on 20 April 1887 while target towing. Escort (1896) was a steel paddle dockyard tug, built by W H Potter, Liverpool and Fawcett, Preston & Co; she was sold to J A White on 31 May 1922 for demolition at St David's, Fife. Escort (1897) was a fishing trawler built by Mackie & Thomson, Govan, and purchased in 1915 to serve as a boom defence vessel; she was sold in 1920 and returned to fishing.
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