HMS Stirling Castle

A number of ships of the Royal Navy and Royal Fleet Auxiliary have been named Stirling Castle (sometimes spelled 'Sterling') after Stirling Castle in Scotland, including:

* HMS Stirling Castle (1679), a 70-gun third-rate ship of the line, launched in 1679, and lost off Ramsgate in Kent in 1703.
* HMS Stirling Castle (1705), a 70-gun third-rate ship of the line launched in 1705, hulked in 1739 and broken up in 1771.
* HMS Stirling Castle (1742), a 70-gun third-rate ship of the line launched in 1742 and lost in 1762.
* HMS Stirling Castle (1775), a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line launched in 1775 and lost in 1780.
* HMS Stirling Castle (1811), a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line launched in 1811, and hulked in 1839.
* HMS Stirling Castle (1900), an auxiliary patrol paddler launched in 1900, and sunk in the Mediterranean in 1916.
* RFA Stirling Castle, a mine countermeasures support vessel commissioned in 2023 with pennant number M01

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