HMS Manchester

Template:Use dmy dates Three ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Manchester after the city of Manchester in the north-west of England.

• HMS Manchester was a hired store ship in 1814.
• Template:HMS was a Template:Sclass2 cruiser launched in 1937 and lost in action in 1942.
• Template:HMS was a Type 42 (Batch 3) destroyer launched in 1980. She participated in the 1991 Gulf War and was decommissioned on 17 February 2011.

Battle honours

• Norway 1940
• Spartivento 1940
• Malta 1942
• Arctic 1942
• Kuwait 1991

References

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| last1 = Colledge
| first1 = J. J. 
| author-link1= J. J. Colledge
| last2 = Warlow
| first2 = Ben
| date = 2006
| orig-date = 1969
| title = Ships of the Royal Navy: {{#if:|The Complete Record of All Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy|The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy}}
| edition = Rev.
| location = London
| publisher = Chatham Publishing
| isbn = 978-1-86176-281-8

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