Two ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS St Joseph:
- HMS St Joseph was an 8-gun sloop captured in 1696 and sold in 1699. The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the oldest of the British armed services (and is therefore known as the Senior Service) In the 18th and the earlier part of the 19th centuries a sloop-of-war was a small sailing Warship (also known as one of the Escort types with a single gun deck
- HMS St Joseph was a 4-gun hoy purchased in 1704 and sold in 1710. A hoy was a small Sloop -rigged coasting ship or a heavy Barge used for freight
See also
- HMS San Josef was a 114-gun first rate captured from the Spanish in 1797. First-rate was the designation used by the Royal Navy for its largest ships of the line, those mounting 100 guns or more on three gundecks She was used as a gunnery training ship from 1837 and was broken up in 1849. A training ship is a ship used to train students as Sailors The term is especially used for ships employed by navies to train future officers
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