HMS Newmarket is a name that has been carried by at least two ships of the Royal Navy:
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HMS Newmarket (G47), a Town-class destroyer, originally the American Wickes-class destroyer USS Robinson (DD-88).
- Class and Type: Town-class destroyer (ex-Wickes-class destroyer)
- Builder: Union Iron Works, San Francisco, California
- Laid Down: 30 July 1917
- Launched: 28 March 1918 (as USS Robinson)
- Commissioned (USN): 19 October 1918
- Transferred to Royal Navy: 26 September 1940, under the Destroyers-for-bases agreement.
- Service History: Upon transfer, she was renamed HMS Newmarket and assigned the pennant number G47. She served throughout World War II primarily on convoy escort duties in the Atlantic, protecting vital shipping from U-boat attacks. Due to her age and the wear of war service, she was reclassified as a target ship in late 1944.
- Fate: Decommissioned in January 1945 and subsequently broken up for scrap at Thos W Ward, Grays, Essex, starting on 21 September 1945.
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HMS Newmarket (M1087), a Sandown-class minehunter.
- Class and Type: Sandown-class minehunter
- Builder: Vosper Thornycroft, Southampton
- Laid Down: 27 February 1990
- Launched: 30 January 1991
- Commissioned: 20 September 1993
- Service History: HMS Newmarket was part of the Royal Navy's mine countermeasures fleet, designed to detect and destroy sea mines. She was primarily based at HM Naval Base Clyde, Faslane. In 2003, she participated in Operation Telic during the Iraq War, conducting mine clearance operations in the Persian Gulf.
- Fate: Decommissioned from the Royal Navy in July 2011. She was subsequently sold to the Lithuanian Navy, along with her sister ship HMS Dulverton (M35), in 2011. She was recommissioned into the Lithuanian Navy on 19 May 2011 as LNS Dzūkas (M54), where she continues to serve.