HMS Stirling Castle explained

A number of ships of the Royal Navy and Royal Fleet Auxiliary have been named Stirling Castle (sometimes spelled 'Sterling') after Stirling Castle in Scotland, including:

• , a 70-gun third-rate ship of the line, launched in 1679, and lost off Ramsgate in Kent in 1703.
• , a 70-gun third-rate ship of the line launched in 1705, hulked in 1739 and broken up in 1771.
• , a 70-gun third-rate ship of the line launched in 1742 and lost in 1762.
• , a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line launched in 1775 and lost in 1780.
• , a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line launched in 1811, and hulked in 1839.
• , an auxiliary patrol paddler launched in 1900, and sunk in the Mediterranean in 1916.
• , a mine countermeasures support vessel commissioned in 2023 with pennant number M01