HMS Sutherland

Three ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Sutherland:

HMS Sutherland was a fourth-rate of 54 guns launched in 1704 as HMS Reserve. She served as a hospital ship in the Mediterranean 1741, and was condemned in 1744. She was broken up in 1754.
HMS Sutherland was a 50-gun fourth-rate launched in 1741 and sold in 1770.
HMS Sutherland is a Type 23 frigate launched in 1996 and on active service as of 2015.

HMS Sutherland also is the name of a fictional, Dutch-built, 74-gun ship of the line that appears in the Horatio Hornblower novels.

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