HMS Friendship

Five ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Friendship:

• HMS Friendship (1673), a fireship purchased in 1673 and sunk in action in the same year.
• HMS Friendship (1763), a 4-gun cutter, purchased in 1763 and sold eight years later.
• HMS Friendship (1794), a fireship purchased in 1794 and broken up in 1801.
• HMS Friendship (1795), a 2-gun vessel purchased in 1795 and sunk off the Channel Islands in 1801.
• HMS Friendship (J398), an Algerine-class minesweeper provided to the Royal Navy in 1942 under the Lend-Lease scheme and returned to the United States Navy in 1947.

References

• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2010) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (4th Rev. ed.). Newbury: Casemate. ISBN 978-1-935149-07-1.