HMS Rosalind

There have been two ships of the Royal Navy named HMS Rosalind, named after the protagonist in William Shakespeare's As You Like It:

• HMS Rosalind (1913), renamed Liberty shortly after launching in 1913, an L-class destroyer that fought at the Battle of Jutland in 1916 and was broken up in 1921.^[1]
• HMS Rosalind (1916), an R-class destroyer launched by Thornycroft in 1916 and scrapped in 1926.^[2]

See also

• The Modified Rosalinds were five S-class destroyers built by Thornycroft based on the 1916 ship.^[3]
• HMT Rosalind was a Shakespearian-class naval trawler launched in 1941 and transferred to Kenya 1946.^[4]