HMS Guernsey

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Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Four ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Guernsey, after the island of Guernsey. Two more were planned but never completed:

  • Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". was a 22-gun ship launched as Basing in 1654, and renamed HMS Guernsey in 1660. She was converted to a fireship in 1688 and broken up in 1693.
  • Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". was a 48-gun fourth rate launched in 1696. She was rebuilt in 1740, hulked in 1769 and sold in 1786.
  • Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". was a 32-gun fifth rate launched in 1758 as Aeolus (though the name sometimes appears as Eolus). She was placed on harbour service in 1796, renamed HMS Guernsey in 1800 and broken up in 1801.
  • HMS Guernsey was to have been a wooden screw sloop. She was ordered in 1861 and cancelled in 1863.
  • HMS Guernsey was to have been a destroyer. She was ordered as HMS Gael in 1944, but was cancelled in 1945.
  • HMS Guernsey (P297) was an Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". launched in 1977, paid off in 2003 and sold to Bangladesh in 2004 where she was renamed Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"..

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