HMS London

A fascinating and lively account of the lives of British warships named London , looking at history from the perspective of the men who were there. There is no current warship in the Royal Navy called HMS London , but vessels carrying the name have featured in some of the most controversial episodes of British naval history. For example, the wooden wall battleship HMS London of the late 18th century could be called “the ship that lost America” while the heavy cruiser of WW2 was command vessel fo