HMS Fleetwood (U47)

Two ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Fleetwood, after the town of Fleetwood. A third ship was planned as Fleetwood, but was renamed before being launched:

• HMS Fleetwood (1655) was a Royalist ship captured by the Parliamentarians in 1655 and renamed Wexford.
• HMS Fleetwood was to have been a Hunt-class minesweeper. She was renamed HMS Ford in 1918 and was launched later that year.
• HMS Fleetwood (U47) was a Grimsby-class sloop launched in 1936 and broken up after 1959.

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.