HMS Brighton

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

• HMS Brighton was a 14-gun tender purchased in 1795 and captured by the French in 1797.
• HMS Brighton, 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 was a Town-class destroyer launched as the Wickes-class destroyer USS Cowell. She was transferred to the Royal Navy under lend-lease in 1940, and used as a target ship from 1942. She was transferred to the Soviet Navy between 1944 and 1949 as Zharki, and was broken up in 1949.
• HMS Brighton was a Rothesay-class frigate launched in 1959 and scrapped in 1985.