HMS York
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Several ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS York after the city of York, the county seat of Yorkshire, on the River Ouse.
- York, built in 1654 as Marston Moor, was a 54-gun ship of the line. She was renamed York upon the Restoration in 1660. She ran aground and was wrecked in 1703.
- York, built in 1706, was a 60-gun fourth-rate sunk in 1751 at Sheerness as a breakwater.
- York, launched in 1753, was another 60-gun fourth-rate, broken up in 1772.
- York, originally Betsy, was a sloop-of-war purchased in 1777 in North America. In 1778, she was captured by the French, but then recaptured.
- York was a storeship purchased in 1779 in the West Indies, only to be sold again in 1781.
- York, intended to be the East Indiaman Royal Admiral, was purchased on the stocks in 1796 and converted to a 74-gun third-rate. She served in the Navy for eight years before foundering on Bell Rock in the North Sea in 1804.
- York, launched in 1807, was again a 74-gun third-rate. Converted to a convict ship in 1819, she was broken up in 1854.
- York was an armed boarding steamer requisitioned from 1915–1919. She served in World War I.
- York (90), launched in 1928, was a County-class cruiser. She served in World War II and was sunk in Suda Bay, Crete by Italian torpedo boats.
- York (D98), launched 1982, is a Type 42 destroyer serving as of 2004 with the Third Destroyer Squadron at Portsmouth.