Three ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Medway Prize, the name being given to ships that had been captured and taken as prizes by one of the Royal Navy ships named HMS Medway. In this instance all of the ships were captured by the same HMS Medway:
- HMS Medway Prize was a 48-gun fourth rate captured from the French in 1697. She was hulked in 1699 and was sunk as a foundation in 1712.
- HMS Medway Prize was a 28-gun sixth rate captured from the French in 1704. She was sold in 1713.
- HMS Medway Prize was a fifth rate previously named Favorette, captured from the French in 1744. She was sold in 1749.
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“Then, though I prize my friends, I cannot afford to talk with them and study their visions, lest I lose my own. It would indeed give me a certain household joy to quit this lofty seeking, this spiritual astronomy, or search of stars, and come down to warm sympathies with you; but then I know well I shall mourn always the vanishing of my mighty gods.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)