HMS Kentish
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Two ships of the Royal Navy
have borne the name HMS Kentish, a variation on the English
county
of Kent
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Royal Navy
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have borne the name HMS Kentish, a variation on the English
England
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county
Counties of the United Kingdom
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of Kent
Kent
Kent is a county in southeast England, and is one of the home counties. It borders East Sussex, Surrey and Greater London and has a defined boundary with Essex in the middle of the Thames Estuary. The ceremonial county boundaries of Kent include the shire county of Kent and the unitary borough of...
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- HMS Kentish was an armed merchantman purchased in 1646 and listed until 1647.
- HMS KentishHMS Kent (1652)Kentish was a 40-gun fourth-rate frigate of the Commonwealth of England Navy, built at Deptford and launched in 1652.Her most famous action was when she attacked a squadron of Tunisian warships lying in Porto Farina, on the Barbary Coast...
was a 46-gun ship launched in 1652. She was renamed HMS Kent in 1660, and was wrecked in 1672.