HMS Stirling Castle

A number of ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Stirling Castle (sometimes spelled 'Sterling') after Stirling Castle in Scotland, including:

• HMS Stirling Castle (1679), a 70-gun third rate ship of the line, launched in 1679, and lost off Ramsgate in Kent in 1703.
• HMS Stirling Castle (1705), a 70-gun third rate ship of the line launched in 1705, hulked in 1739 and broken up in 1771.
• HMS Stirling Castle (1742), a 70-gun third rate ship of the line launched in 1742 and lost in 1762.
• HMS Stirling Castle (1775), a 64-gun third rate ship of the line launched in 1775 and lost in 1780.
• HMS Stirling Castle (1811), a 74-gun third rate ship of the line launched in 1811, and hulked in 1839.
• HMS Stirling Castle (1900), an auxiliary patrol paddler launched in 1900, and sunk in the Mediterranean in 1916.