HMS Hoste explained
Two ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Hoste, after Captain Sir William Hoste. A third was planned, but entered service under a different name:
- was a launched in 1916 and sunk in a collision with later that year.
- HMS Hoste was to have been a frigate transferred under lend-lease. The name was changed in 1943 to, and she became a .
- was a transferred under lend-lease in 1943 and returned to the US Navy in 1945.