HMS Exmouth
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A number of Royal Navy ships have been named HMS Exmouth, after the port of Exmouth, Devon.
- Exmouth was a steam-powered ship of the line of 90 guns, launched at Devonport in 1854. She served in the Baltic in 1855 as flagship of Rear Admiral Sir Michael Seymour. Last in commission in 1862, she was paid off in 1876 as a training ship for pauper boys, and was broken up in 1905.
- Exmouth was a British battleship of the Duncan class between 1901 and 1917.
- HMS Exmouth (H02), an E class destroyer, was sunk by a U-boat on 21 January 1940. The wrecksite in the Moray Firth is a controlled site under the Protection of Military Remains Act
- Exmouth (F84) was a Blackwood class frigate.
