HMS London

Thirteen ships of the Royal Navy have been named London, after the city of London. Another was named HMS Loyal London (1666):
 * ENGLISH SHIP London was a 40-gun East Indiaman purchased in 1636 and listed until 1653
 * ENGLISH SHIP London was a 64-gun second-rate ship launched in 1656 and blown up in an accident in 1665
 * HMS Loyal London (1666) was a 96-gun second-rate ship launched in 1666: she was partly destroyed by fire by the Dutch in the Medway in 1667, but the remains were rebuilt becoming the next HMS London
 * HMS London (1670) was a 96-gun first-rate ship launched in 1670 to replace the previous ship of the same name: rebuilt in 1706 and 1721, and was broken up in 1747
 * HMS London (1756 brig) was a 16-gun brig launched in 1756 on Lake Ontario and captured by the French the same year
 * HMS London (1756 busse) was a 6-gun Herring buss (formerly the civilian fisheries vessel Holden), purchased in 1756 from the Society for the Free British Fishery and burnt to avoid capture in 1758
 * HMS London (1759) was a 6-gun busse purchased in 1759 and in the records until 1764
 * HMS London (1766) was a 90-gun second rate, launched in 1766 and broken up in 1811
 * HMS London was to have been a 104-gun first rate: she was renamed HMS Royal Adelaide (1828) in 1827, launched in 1828, and sold in 1905
 * HMS London (1840) was a 92-gun second rate launched in 1840: converted to screw propulsion in 1858 and rearmed to 72 guns, became a harbour storeship in 1874, was re-commissioned in 1878 and sold in 1884
 * HMS London (1899) was the lead ship of the London-class battleships launched in 1899, converted to a minelayer in 1918 and sold in 1920
 * HMS London (69) was a County-class cruiser heavy cruiser launched in 1927 and sold in 1950
 * HMS London (D16) was a County-class destroyer guided missile destroyer launched in 1961 and transferred to Pakistan in 1982, where she was renamed Babur
 * HMS London (F95) was a Type 22 frigate launched in 1984, sold to Romania in 2002 and renamed Regina Maria
 * HMS London (Type 26 frigate) will be the name of one of the eight Type 26 frigates

Battle honours

 * Kentish Knock, 1652
 * Gabbard, 1653
 * Scheveningen, 1653
 * Lowestoft, 1665
 * Sole Bay, 1672
 * Schooneveld, 1673
 * Texel, 1675
 * Barfleur, 1692
 * Chesapeake, 1781
 * Groix, 1795
 * Copenhagen, 1801
 * Marengo, 1806
 * Crimea, 1854−55
 * Dardanelles, 1915
 * Atlantic, 1941
 * Arctic, 1941−43
 * East Indies, 1944−45
 * Kuwait, 1991