HMS Jersey
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Eight ships of the Royal Navy
have been named HMS Jersey after the island of Jersey
, part of the Channel Islands
; including
Royal Navy
The Royal Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Founded in the 16th century, it is the oldest service branch and is known as the Senior Service...
have been named HMS Jersey after the island of Jersey
Jersey
Jersey, officially the Bailiwick of Jersey is a British Crown Dependency off the coast of Normandy, France. As well as the island of Jersey itself, the bailiwick includes two groups of small islands that are no longer permanently inhabited, the Minquiers and Écréhous, and the Pierres de Lecq and...
, part of the Channel Islands
Channel Islands
The Channel Islands are an archipelago of British Crown Dependencies in the English Channel, off the French coast of Normandy. They include two separate bailiwicks: the Bailiwick of Guernsey and the Bailiwick of Jersey...
; including
- JerseyHMS Jersey (1654)HMS Jersey was a 40-gun Fourth rate frigate of the English Royal Navy, originally built for the navy of the Commonwealth of England at Maldon, and launched in 1654. By 1677 her armament had been increased to 48 guns....
, a frigate commissioned in 1654 - Jersey, a sixth-rate commissioned in 1694
- JerseyHMS Jersey (1698)HMS Jersey was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at East Cowes on the Isle of Wight, and launched on 24 November 1698.She was converted to serve as a hulk in 1731, and was sunk in 1763....
, a frigate commissioned in 1698 - JerseyHMS Jersey (1736)HMS Jersey was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built to the 1733 proposals of the 1719 Establishment of dimensions at Plymouth Dockyard, and launched on 14 June 1736. She is perhaps most noted for her service as a prison ship during the American Revolutionary War.-Early...
, a frigate commissioned in 1736 and used as a prison ship in the American Revolutionary War - Jersey, a sloop commissioned in 1776
- Jersey, a cutter commissioned in 1860
- JerseyHMS Jersey (F72)HMS Jersey was a J-class destroyer of the Royal Navy laid down by J. Samuel White and Company at Cowes on the Isle of Wight on 20 September 1937, launched on 26 September 1938 and commissioned on 28 April 1939...
(F72), a J-class destroyer commissioned in 1939 and sunk in 1941. - JerseyHMS Jersey (P295)HMS Jersey was an Island-class patrol vessel of the Royal Navy . She was named after the island of Jersey, part of the Channel Islands.She was built at Aberdeen, being launched in 1976 by HRH Princess Anne and subsequently commissioned into the Navy later that year...
(P295), an Island-class patrol ship commissioned in 1976 and sold to Bangladesh in 1994 as BNS Shaheed Ruhul Amin.