Three ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Sandown. Sandown is a seaside resort on the Isle of Wight, England.
- HMS Sandown (1916), one of 24 Racecourse-class paddle wheel minesweepers, and was launched in 1916 and broken up in 1923.
- HMS Sandown (1939), a paddle wheel ferry built in 1934 for Southern Railway's Portsmouth— Ryde service but requisitioned by the Royal Navy in 1939 and converted to a minesweeper, and later in 1942 to an anti-aircraft ship. She was converted back to a ferry in 1945 and was scrapped in 1956.
- HMS Sandown (M101) was a Sandown-class minehunter launched in 1988 and transferred to the Estonian Navy in 2007 as EML Admiral Cowan.
Battle honours
Ships named Sandown have earned the following battle honours:
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.
External links
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list of ships with the same or similar names. If an
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Three ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Sandown. Sandown is a seaside resort on the Isle of Wight, England.
- HMS Sandown (1916), one of 24 Racecourse-class paddle wheel minesweepers, and was launched in 1916 and broken up in 1923.
- HMS Sandown (1939), a paddle wheel ferry built in 1934 for Southern Railway's Portsmouth— Ryde service but requisitioned by the Royal Navy in 1939 and converted to a minesweeper, and later in 1942 to an anti-aircraft ship. She was converted back to a ferry in 1945 and was scrapped in 1956.
- HMS Sandown (M101) was a Sandown-class minehunter launched in 1988 and transferred to the Estonian Navy in 2007 as EML Admiral Cowan.
Battle honours
Ships named Sandown have earned the following battle honours:
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.
External links
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.