HMS Worcester

A number of ships of the Royal Navy have bourne the name Worcester. Among them:

Worcester (1843 - ): 1473 ton, 50 gun two-decker ship of the line
Thames Nautical Training College, known as HMS Worcester, using the above ship as a training ship
Frederick William (1833 - 1947), renamed to Worcester in 1876 to replace the first Worcester as school ship. 4725 tons, two-decked. Intended as a 110-gun ship of the line named Royal Sovereign, redesigned as a 116-gun two-decker, then converted to a 86-gun steam and sail ship, renamed Frederick William, and launched 27 years after her keel was laid.
The Exmouth (1904 - ) was renamed to HMS Worcester to replace the second Worcester as school ship. She had been built in steel with the intended purpose to serve as a school ship.
The destroyer HMS Worcester D96 (1922 - 1945) 1120-ton destroyer, launched on 24 October 1919, commissioned on September 1922, speed 34 knots. She helped evacuate the British Expeditionnary Corps at Dunkirk. After hitting a mine on 23 December 1943, she was deemed damaged beyond repair and used as a hulk until scrapped in 1945 [1]

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