HMS Lichfield

Three ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Lichfield, after the town of Lichfield in Staffordshire.

HMS Lichfield (1658) was a 20-gun fireship, originally the Royalist ship Patrick. She was captured in 1658 by the Parliamentarians and renamed. She was renamed Happy Entrance in 1665. Her fate is unknown.
HMS Lichfield (1695) was a 48-gun fourth rate launched in 1695, rebuilt in 1730 and broken up in 1744.
HMS Lichfield (1746) was a 50-gun fourth rate launched in 1746 and wrecked on the north African coast in 1758.

There was also HMS Lichfield Prize, a 36-gun fifth rate captured from the French in 1703 and sold in 1706.

References

Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.

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