Eight ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Lowestoft, or the archaic HMS Lowestoffe, after the Suffolk town of Lowestoft:
HMS Lowestoffe was a 28-gun fifth rate launched in 1697. She was rebuilt in 1723 as a 20-gun sixth rate and sold in 1774.HMS Lowestoffe was a 24-gun sixth rate launched in 1742 and sold in 1748.HMS Lowestoffe was a 28-gun sixth rate launched in 1756 and sunk in 1760.HMS Lowestoffe was a 32-gun fifth rate launched in 1761 and wrecked in 1801.HMS Lowestoft was to have been a 38-gun fifth rate, ordered in 1801 and cancelled in 1805.HMS Lowestoft was a Town-class light cruiser launched in 1913 and scrapped in 1931.HMS Lowestoft was a Grimsby class sloop launched in 1934. She was sold into mercantile service in 1946 and renamed Miraflores. She was scrapped in 1955.HMS Lowestoft was a Rothesay or Type 12I class anti-submarine frigate. She was launched in 1960 and sunk as a target in 1986.There was also HMS Lowestoffe Prize, an 8-gun brig-sloop captured in 1777 and condemned in 1779.
