HMS Brighton

Four ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Brighton, after the seaside town of Brighton.

HMS Brighton (1795) was a 14-gun tender purchased in 1795 and captured by the French in 1797.
HMS Brighton (1903), a passenger ferry requisitioned from the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway in 1914, used as a troopship and later as a hospital ship.
HMS Brighton (I08) was a Town-class destroyer during the Second World War
HMS Brighton (F106) was a Rothesay-class frigate launched in 1959 and scrapped in 1985.

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