Three ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Whitby, after the Yorkshire seaside town of Whitby:
was a 12-gun storeship purchased in 1780 and sold in 1785. HMS Whitby was the intended name of a destroyer ordered in 1916, but due to a clerical error she was launched as in 1917 and retained the latter name was a launched in 1954 and sold for scrapping in 1978.
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