HMS Lowestoft

HMS Lowestoft

Eight ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS "Lowestoft", or the archaic HMS "Lowestoffe", after the Suffolk town of Lowestoft:

*HMS "Lowestoffe" was a 28-gun fifth rate launched in 1697. She was rebuilt in 1723 as a 20-gun sixth rate and sold in 1774.
*HMS "Lowestoffe" was a 24-gun sixth rate launched in 1742 and sold in 1748.
*HMS "Lowestoffe" was a 28-gun sixth rate launched in 1756 and sunk in 1760.
*HMS "Lowestoffe" was a 32-gun fifth rate launched in 1761 and wrecked in 1801.
*HMS "Lowestoft" was to have been a 38-gun fifth rate, ordered in 1801 and cancelled in 1805.
*HMS "Lowestoft" was a Town-class light cruiser launched in 1913 and scrapped in 1931.
*HMS "Lowestoft" was a "Grimsby" class sloop launched in 1934. She was sold into mercantile service in 1946 and renamed "Miraflores". She was scrapped in 1955.
* HMS "Lowestoft" was a "Rothesay" or Type 12I class anti-submarine frigate. She was launched in 1960 and sunk as a target in 1986.

There was also HMS "Lowestoffe Prize", an 8-gun brig-sloop captured in 1777 and condemned in 1779.

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