Several classes of ships have been called River class:
- Destroyers
- River-class destroyer of the Royal Navy built in the early 20th century that served in World War I.
- Canadian River-class destroyer of the Royal Canadian Navy that served in World War II.
- River-class destroyer escort - frigates built for the Royal Australian Navy post Second World War.
- River-class torpedo boat destroyer of the Royal Australian Navy that served in the First World War.
- Frigates
- River-class frigate of the Second World War built for the Royal Navy, Royal Canadian Navy and other navies.
- Minesweepers
- River-class minesweeper of the modern Royal Navy.
- Patrol vessels
- River-class patrol vessel of the modern Royal Navy.
- River-class Motor Launch of the Royal Navy.
- Submarines
- River-class submarine of the interwar Royal Navy that saw service in World War II.
Famous quotes containing the words river and/or class:
“At sundown, leaving the river road awhile for shortness, we went by way of Enfield, where we stopped for the night. This, like most of the localities bearing names on this road, was a place to name which, in the midst of the unnamed and unincorporated wilderness, was to make a distinction without a difference, it seemed to me.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“A poet is no rattlebrain, saying what comes uppermost, and, because he says every thing, saying, at last, something good; but a heart in unison with his time and country. There is nothing whimsical or fantastic in his production, but sweet and sad earnest, freighted with the weightiest convictions, and pointed with the most determined aim which any man or class knows of in his times.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)