Six ships of the Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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 have borne the name HMS Sandwich, either after the English seaside town of Sandwich

Sandwich, Kent

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, or one of the holders of the title Earl of Sandwich

Earl of Sandwich

Earl of Sandwich is a 17th century title in the Peerage of England, nominally associated with Sandwich, Kent. It was created in 1660 for the prominent naval commander Admiral Sir Edward Montagu. He was made Baron Montagu, of St Neots in the County of Huntingdon, and Viscount Hinchingbrooke, at the...

, particularly Vice-Admiral Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich

Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich

Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich, KG was an English Infantry officer who later became a naval officer. He was the only surviving son of Sir Sidney Montagu, and was brought up at Hinchingbrooke House....

, or First Lord of the Admiralty John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich

John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich

John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, PC, FRS was a British statesman who succeeded his grandfather, Edward Montagu, 3rd Earl of Sandwich, as the Earl of Sandwich in 1729, at the age of ten...

. A seventh ship was planned, but never completed:
was a 90-gun second rate launched in 1679. She was rebuilt in 1712 and hulked

Hulk (ship)

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 in 1752. She was broken up in 1770. was a 98-gun second rate launched in 1759. She was converted to a floating battery

Floating battery

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 in 1780, and used for harbour service from 1790. She was broken up in 1810. was a 24-gun armed ship, formerly the civilian Majority. She was purchased in 1780 and captured by the French in 1781. was a 10-gun cutter purchased in 1804 and sold in 1805.

• HMS Sandwich
  HMS Pitt (1805)
  HMS Pitt was the mercantile William and Mary, which the Admiralty bought in 1805. She served briefly on the Jamaica station during the Napoleonic Wars. She participated in one notable single-ship action in which she prevailed, and captured several other vessels...
  
   was a 12-gun schooner
  Schooner
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   purchased in 1805 as . She was renamed HMS Sandwich in 1807 and was broken up in 1809.
• HMS Sandwich was to have been a 74-gun third rate. She was laid down in 1809 but was cancelled in 1811. was a Bridgewater-class
  Bridgewater class sloop
  The Bridgewater class sloop was a class composed of two ships built for the Royal Navy, and . The ships were part of the Royal Navy's 1927 Build Programme as replacements for the .-Design:...
  
   sloop
  Sloop-of-war
  In the 18th and most of the 19th centuries, a sloop-of-war was a warship with a single gun deck that carried up to eighteen guns. As the rating system covered all vessels with 20 guns and above, this meant that the term sloop-of-war actually encompassed all the unrated combat vessels including the...
  
  launched in 1928 and sold for breaking up in 1946.