title: HMS Kentish
text: # HMS Kentish
  
  One ship of the Royal Navy has borne the name HMS Kentish, while the name Kentish was also borne by a warship of the Commonwealth of England's navy; the name was a variation on the English county of Kent:
  
  * HMS Kentish (1646) was an armed merchantman purchased in 1646 and listed until 1647.
  * Kentish was a 46-gun frigate launched in 1652. She was renamed HMS Kent in 1660, and was wrecked in 1672.
  