HMS Sandown

Three ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Sandown. Sandown is a seaside resort on the Isle of Wight, England.


 * HMS Sandown (1916), one of 24 Racecourse-class minesweeper paddle wheel minesweepers, and was launched in 1916 and broken up in 1923.
 * HMS Sandown (1939), a paddle wheel ferry built in 1934 for Southern Railway's Portsmouth&mdash;Ryde service but requisitioned by the Royal Navy in 1939 and converted to a minesweeper, and later in 1942 to an anti-aircraft ship. She was converted back to a ferry in 1945 and was scrapped in 1956.
 * HMS Sandown (M101) was a Sandown-class minehunter launched in 1988 and transferred to the Estonian Navy in 2007 as EML Admiral Cowan.

Battle honours
Ships named Sandown have earned the following battle honours:
 * Dunkirk 1940
 * Normandy 1944
 * Al Faw 2003