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Thirteen ships of the [[Royal Navy]] have been named '''''London''''', after the city of [[London]].  Another was named '''{{HMS|Loyal London|1666}}''':
* {{ship|English ship|London|1636}} was a 40-gun [[East Indiaman]] purchased in 1636 and listed until 1653
* {{ship|English ship|London|1656}} was a 64-gun [[second-rate]] ship launched in 1656 and blown up in an accident in 1665
* {{HMS|Loyal London|1666}} was a 96-gun second-rate ship launched in 1666: she was partly destroyed by fire by the Dutch in the Medway in 1667, but the remains were rebuilt becoming the next HMS ''London''
* {{HMS|London|1670}} was a 96-gun [[first-rate]] ship launched in 1670 to replace the previous ship of the same name: rebuilt in 1706 and 1721, and was broken up in 1747
* {{HMS|London|1756 brig}} was a 16-gun [[brig]] launched in 1756 on [[Lake Ontario]] and captured by the [[France|French]] the same year
* {{HMS|London|1756 busse}} was a 6-gun [[Herring buss]] (formerly the civilian fisheries vessel ''Holden''), purchased in 1756 from the [[Society for the Free British Fishery]] and burnt to avoid capture in 1758
* {{HMS|London|1759}} was a 6-gun busse purchased in 1759 and in the records until 1764
* {{HMS|London|1766}} was a 90-gun second rate, launched in 1766 and broken up in 1811
* [[HMS Royal Adelaide (1828)|HMS ''London'']] was to have been a 104-gun first rate: she was renamed {{HMS|Royal Adelaide|1828|6}} in 1827, launched in 1828, and sold in 1905
* {{HMS|London|1840}} was a 92-gun second rate launched in 1840: converted to screw propulsion in 1858 and rearmed to 72 guns, became a harbour storeship in 1874, was re-commissioned in 1878 and sold in 1884
* {{HMS|London|1899}} was the [[lead ship]] of the {{sclass|London|battleship}}s launched in 1899, converted to a [[minelayer]] in 1918 and sold in 1920
* {{HMS|London|69}} was a {{sclass2|County|cruiser|0}} [[heavy cruiser]] launched in 1927 and sold in 1950
* {{HMS|London|D16}} was a {{sclass2|County|destroyer|0}} [[guided missile destroyer]] launched in 1961 and transferred to [[Pakistan]] in 1982, where she was renamed ''Babur''
* {{HMS|London|F95}} was a [[Type 22 frigate]] launched in 1984, sold to [[Romania]] in 2002 and renamed ''Regina Maria''
* {{HMS|London|Type 26 frigate}} will be the name of one of the eight [[Type 26 frigate]]s<ref>{{cite news |title=Theresa May: UK open to 'different' Russia relationship |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/11/theresa-may-uk-open-to-different-russia-relationship-sergei-skripal |access-date=12 November 2018 |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=11 November 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=PM speech to the Lord Mayor's Banquet: 12 November 2018 |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/pm-speech-to-the-lord-mayors-banquet-12-november-2018 |access-date=13 November 2018 |work=gov.uk |date=12 November 2018}}</ref>

==Battle honours==
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*[[Battle of the Kentish Knock|Kentish Knock]], 1652
*[[Battle of the Gabbard|Gabbard]], 1653
*[[Battle of Scheveningen|Scheveningen]], 1653
*[[Battle of Lowestoft|Lowestoft]], 1665
*[[Battle of Solebay|Sole Bay]], 1672
*[[Battle of Schooneveld|Schooneveld]], 1673
*[[Battle of Texel|Texel]], 1675
*[[Action at Barfleur|Barfleur]], 1692
*[[Battle of the Chesapeake|Chesapeake]], 1781
*[[Battle of Groix|Groix]], 1795
*[[Battle of Copenhagen (1801)|Copenhagen]], 1801
*[[French ship Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1795)|''Marengo'']], 1806
*[[Crimean War|Crimea]], 1854−55
*[[Naval operations in the Dardanelles Campaign|Dardanelles]], 1915
*[[Battle of the Atlantic|Atlantic]], 1941
*[[Arctic naval operations of World War II|Arctic]], 1941−43
*East Indies, 1944−45
*[[Gulf War|Kuwait]], 1991
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==See also==
* {{HMS|Londonderry}}
* HM [[Hired armed vessels|Hired armed ship]] {{ship|Hired armed ship|London Packet||2}}
* {{ship||London|ship}}

==Citations==
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==References==
*{{Cite Colledge2006}}
*{{cite book|last1=Manning|first1=T. D.|last2=Walker|first2=C. F.|title=British Warship Names|year=1959|publisher=Putnam|location=London}}

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