HMS Escort (original) (raw)

Four ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Escort: * was a 14-gun sloop, formerly a French privateer. She was captured in 1757 and sold in 1768. * was a 12-gun gun-brig launched in 1801 and transferred to Customs in 1815. * was an Albacore-class wooden screw gunboat launched in 1856 and broken up in 1865. * HMS Escort (H66) was an E-class destroyer launched in 1934. She was torpedoed in 1940 and foundered three days later. This article includes a list of ships with the same or similar names. If an internal link for a specific ship led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ship article, if one exists.