HMS Lowestoft

Eight ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Lowestoft, or the archaic HMS Lowestoffe, after the Suffolk town of Lowestoft:


 * HMS Lowestoffe was a 28-gun fifth rate launched in 1697. She was rebuilt in 1723 as a 20-gun sixth rate and sold in 1774.
 * HMS Lowestoffe was a 24-gun sixth rate launched in 1742 and sold in 1748.
 * HMS Lowestoffe was a 28-gun sixth rate launched in 1756 and sunk in 1760.
 * HMS Lowestoffe was a 32-gun fifth rate launched in 1761 and wrecked in 1801.
 * HMS Lowestoft was to have been a 38-gun fifth rate, ordered in 1801 and cancelled in 1805.
 * HMS Lowestoft was a Town-class light cruiser launched in 1913 and scrapped in 1931.
 * HMS Lowestoft was a Grimsby class sloop launched in 1934. She was sold into mercantile service in 1946 and renamed Miraflores.  She was scrapped in 1955.
 * HMS Lowestoft was a Rothesay or Type 12I class anti-submarine frigate.  She was launched in 1960 and sunk as a target in 1986.

There was also HMS Lowestoffe Prize, an 8-gun brig-sloop captured in 1777 and condemned in 1779.