Five ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Asia, after the continent of Asia: * was a hulk purchased in 1694 and foundered in 1701. * HMS Asia (1764) was a 64-gun third rate launched in 1764 and broken up in 1804. * HMS Asia (1811) was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1811. She was renamed HMS Alfred in 1819, reduced to 50-guns in 1828 and broken up in 1865. * HMS Asia (1824) was an 84-gun second rate launched in 1824. She was used as a guardship from 1858 and was sold in 1908. * was an auxiliary cruiser of the British Caspian Flotilla from 1918 to 1919. This article includes a list of ships with the same or similar names. If an internal link for a specific ship led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ship article, if one exists.