HMS Starfish
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Three ships of the Royal Navy
have borne the name HMS Starfish, after the Starfish, a marine creature:
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 borne the name HMS Starfish, after the Starfish, a marine creature:
- HMS StarfishHMS Starfish (1894)HMS Starfish was a Sturgeon class destroyer which served with the Royal Navy. Built by Vickers, she was launched in 1894 and sold in 1911....
was an A classA class destroyer (1913)The A class as designated in 1913 was a heterogeneous group of torpedo boat destroyers built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1890s. Some 42 vessels were constructed to the individual designs of their builders to meet Admiralty specifications, the only uniting feature being a specified top speed of...
destroyerDestroyerIn naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast and maneuverable yet long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet, convoy or battle group and defend them against smaller, powerful, short-range attackers. Destroyers, originally called torpedo-boat destroyers in 1892, evolved from...
of the SturgeonSturgeon class destroyerThree Sturgeon-class destroyers served with the Royal Navy. , and were built by the Vickers yard and differed from other similar ships in having their mast stepped before the first funnel. They had Blechynden boilers which gave them 4,000 HP and 27 knots. They were armed with one twelve pounder...
subgroup. She was launched in 1894 and sold in 1911. - HMS Starfish was an R classR class destroyer (1916)The first R class were a class of 62 destroyers built between 1916 and 1917 for the Royal Navy. They were an improvement, specifically in the area of fuel economy, of the earlier M-class destroyers...
destroyer launched in 1916 and sold in 1928. - HMS StarfishHMS Starfish (19S)HMS Starfish was a Group one British S class submarine that was depth charged and sunk by a German minesweeper M7 at Heligoland Bight on 9 January 1940 during the Second World War. Her crew were captured....
was an S classBritish S class submarine (1931)The S-class submarines of the Royal Navy were originally designed and built during the modernisation of the submarine force in the early 1930s to meet the need for smaller boats to patrol the restricted waters of the North Sea and the Mediterranean Sea replacing the British H class submarines...
submarineSubmarineA submarine is a watercraft capable of independent operation below the surface of the water. It differs from a submersible, which has more limited underwater capability...
launched in 1933 and lost in 1940.