// Workers AI · dad joke modeWhat did HMS Whitby say to its friend? "Sea you later".
Three ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Whitby, after the Yorkshire seaside town of Whitby:
- HMS Whitby (1780) was a 12-gun storeship purchased in 1780 and sold in 1785.
- HMS Whitby was the intended name of a destroyer ordered in 1916, but due to a clerical error she was launched as HMS Whitley (L23) in 1917 and retained the latter name
- HMS Whitby (F36) was a Whitby-class frigate launched in 1954 and sold for scrapping in 1978.
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