HMS Hastings was a Hastings-class sloop of the Royal Navy that saw action in World War II.

Upon completion, she immediately set sail for the Persian Gulf and Red Sea areas where she patrolled until returning to home waters in 1937, when she was deployed with the Fishery Protection Squadron.

[1] Hastings was assigned to Rosyth for convoy defence in the North Sea and in waters off the British East Coast from October 1939 until June 1941.

On 25 August, a group of frigates and corvettes arrived in the area but were attacked by 14 Dornier Do 217s, seven Junkers Ju 88s and the new German weapon, the Hs 293 glider bomb.

Two days later, in an operation off Cape Finisterre with RAF Coastal Command led by HMCS Athabaskan, Hastings once again came under glider bomb attack but was undamaged.

She was laid-up briefly at Hartlepool before re-fit as a training target for the 3rd Submarine Squadron in Holy Loch from October 1944 until February 1946.