HMS Jersey
Eight ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Jersey after the island of Jersey, part of the Channel Islands; including
- Jersey, a frigate commissioned in 1654
- Jersey, a sixth-rate commissioned in 1694
- Jersey, a frigate commissioned in 1698
- Jersey, a frigate commissioned in 1736 and used as a prison ship in the American Revolutionary War
- Jersey, a sloop commissioned in 1776
- Jersey, a cutter commissioned in 1860
- Jersey (F72), a J-class destroyer commissioned in 1939 and sunk in 1941.
- Jersey (P295), an Island-class patrol ship commissioned in 1976 and sold to Bangladesh in 1994 as BNS Shaheed Ruhul Amin.
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