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Wolverhampton is The Largest City in the UK never to have had one of Her Majesty's Ships named after it.

Of the current 66 British Cities only 5 have never had a Royal navy ship named after them. They are the Northern Irish Cities of Armagh, Lisburn and Newry, the cathedral city of Ely and Wolverhampton (See the table below)

 
  City Population HMS Ship named after
1 London 7,172,091 Yes
2 Birmingham 970,892 Yes
3 Glasgow 629,501 Yes
4 Liverpool 469,017 Yes
5 Leeds 443,247 Yes
6 Sheffield 439,866 Yes
7 Edinburgh 430,082 Yes
8 Bristol 420,556 Yes
9 Manchester 394,269 Yes
10 Leicester 330,574 Yes
11 Coventry 303,475 Yes
12 Hull 301,416 Yes
13 Bradford 293,717 Yes
14 Cardiff 292,150 Yes
15 Belfast 276,459 Yes
16 Stoke 259,252 Yes
17 Wolverhampton 251,462 NO
18 Nottingham 249,584 Yes
19 Plymouth 243,795 Yes
20 Southampton 234,224 Yes
21 Derby 229,407 Yes
22 Brighton and Hove 206,628 Yes
23 Newcastle 189,863 Yes
24 Portsmouth 187,056 Yes
25 Preston 184,836 Yes
26 Aberdeen 184,788 Yes
27 Westminster 181,766 Yes
28 Sunderland 177,739 Yes
29 Norwich 174,047 Yes
30 Swansea 169,880 Yes
31 Dundee 154,674 Yes
32 Oxford 143,016 Yes
33 York 137,505 Yes
34 Peterborough 136,292 Yes
35 Gloucester 123,205 Yes
36 Newport 116,143 Yes
37 Cambridge 113,442 Yes
38 Exeter 106,772 Yes
39 Worcester 94,029 Yes
40 Bath 90,144 Yes
41 Lincoln 85,963 Yes
42 Derry 83,699 Yes
43 St. Albans 82,429 Yes
44 Chester 80,121 Yes
45 Wakefield 76,886 Yes
46 Salford 72,750 Yes
47 Carlisle 71,773 Yes
48 Lisburn 71,465 NO
49 Hereford 56,373 Yes
50 Lancaster 45,952 Yes
51 Canterbury 43,552 Yes
52 Salisbury 43,355 Yes
53 Durham 42,939 Yes
54 Winchester 41,420 Yes
55 Inverness 40,949 Yes
56 Stirling 32,673 Yes
57 Lichfield 28,435 Yes
58 Chichester 27,477 Yes
59 Newry 27,433 NO
60 Truro 20,920 Yes
61 Ripon 16,468 Yes
62 Bangor 15,280 Yes
63 Armagh 14,590 NO
64 Ely 13,954 NO
65 Wells 10,406 Yes
66 St. Davids 1,383 Yes

Notes

The table has been compiled using the 2001 Census publications Key Statistics for urban areas in England and Wales Table KS01 ( released 17 June 2004), Key Statistics for Settlements and Localities Scotland Table KS01 (released 25 March 2003) and Northern Ireland Census 2001 Key Statistics for Settlements Table KS01 (released 10 February 2005).  The names and populations of all urban areas and urban sub-divisions recognised as towns with city status were extracted and included in the list.