• name HMS Crown. Another was planned but never completed: HMS Crown (1654) was a 48-gun ship launched as Taunton in 1654. She was renamed HMS Crown in 1660...
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  • Crown (1793 ship) MS Albatros or Crown, a cruise ship HMS Crown (1654), a 48-gun ship launched as Taunton HMS Crown (1782), a 64-gun third rate Crown...
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  • HMS Crown. By 1677 her armament had been increased to 48 guns. On 14 March 1674, Crown, captained by Richard Carter, along with HMS Newcastle and HMS Cambridge...
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    HMS Crown was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 15 March 1782 at Blackwall Yard. She was converted to serve as a prison...
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  • sixth-rate HMS Lizard, the sixth-rate HMS Lyme, the fourth-rate HMS Anglesea, the fourth-rate HMS Crown, the forth-rate HMS Advice, the third-rate HMS Swiftsure...
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  • of the fifth-rate HMS Hopewell in 1690, the fifth-rate HMS Sweepstakes in 1691 and the fourth-rate HMS Crown in 1692. In the Crown he took part in the...
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    rate and sold in 1814. HMS Jamaica (1825), a 52-gun fourth rate ordered in 1825 and cancelled in 1829 HMS Jamaica (C44), a Crown Colony-class cruiser launched...
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  • as HMS Bombay. She was renamed HMS Ceylon in 1808 , converted to a troopship in 1813, eventually being sold in 1857. HMS Ceylon (30) was a Crown Colony-class...
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  • Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Mauritius, in reference to the former colony of Mauritius: HMS Mauritius (80) was a Crown Colony-class light cruiser launched...
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  • Rotterdam was captured in Ronas Voe, Shetland, by HMS Newcastle. It, along with HMS Cambridge and HMS Crown, were sent instructions to capture the vessel...
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    the fifth-rate HMS Perseverance on the East Indies Station. Promoted to midshipman in December 1789, he joined the third-rate HMS Crown and then transferred...
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  • named HMS Liverpool after the city of Liverpool, whilst another was planned: HMS Liverpool (1741) was a 44-gun fifth-rate frigate, built as HMS Enterprise...
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  • by Arthur Herbert (later 1st Earl of Torrington) along with HMS Newcastle and HMS Crown captured the Dutch East Indiaman Wapen van Rotterdam in the Battle...
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    HMS Belfast is a Town-class light cruiser that was built for the Royal Navy. She is now permanently moored as a museum ship on the River Thames in London...
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    1787 he was briefly given command of HMS Robust before hoisting his broad pennant as commodore in the 64-gun HMS Crown in October 1788 when he was appointed...
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    0 HMS Vigilant Third rate 64 Captain John Douglas 1 2 3 Centre - First division HMS Courageux Third rate 74 Captain Lord Mulgrave 1 4 5 HMS Crown Third...
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    Cliff (K495) (ex-HMS Hever Castle) HMCS Hespeler (K489) (ex-HMS Guildford Castle) (later SS Chilcotin) HMCS Humberstone (K497) (ex-HMS Norham Castle) HMCS...
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  • the Royal Navy have been named HMS Royal Sovereign, while another was planned but renamed before being launched: HMS Sovereign of the Seas was a 102-gun...
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    The forbidding form of the beached convict hulk HMS Discovery at Deptford. Launched as a 10-gun sloop at Rotherhithe in 1789, the ship served as a convict...
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  • the Battle of Narvik, and later was First Lieutenant of HMS Lauderdale in 1942, then of HMS Wessex in the 27th Destroyer Flotilla of the British Pacific...
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  • Saintes. He was made junior lieutenant aboard HMS Crown at Spithead in early February 1789. The Crown then became flagship of Commodore William Cornwallis...
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    HMS Hood (pennant number 51) was a battlecruiser of the Royal Navy (RN). Hood was the first of the planned four Admiral-class battlecruisers to be built...
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  • until 18 November 1788 when he joined Cornwallis's new ship, the 64-gun HMS Crown, as his first-lieutenant and went with him to the East Indies. Cornwallis...
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  • July 1782, she captured the French cutter Le Pigmy, in conjunction with HMS Crown. Converted to a survey vessel, she sailed to survey the Torres Strait...
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    Years' War served with Admiral Edward Hawke in the Basque Roads in command of HMS Achilles. In 1759 Achilles captured a powerful French privateer, after two...
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    again, and started use of the prefix HMS. The Navy remained a national institution and not a possession of the Crown as it had been before. Following the...
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  • ex-HMS Crown Bergen ex-HMS Cromwell Trondheim ex-HMS Croziers Stavanger ex-HMS Crystal Type II Hunt class Arendal ex-HMS Badsworth Haugesund ex-HMS Beaufort...
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    leased space in HMS Jufair and following Bahraini independence in 1971, took over the base. On 6 December 2014, it was announced that HMS Jufair would be...
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    HMS Thetis (N25) was a Group 1 T-class submarine of the Royal Navy which sank during sea trials in Liverpool Bay, England on 1 June 1939. After being...
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    affair was a significant event in the lead-up to the American Revolution. HMS Gaspee was a Royal Navy customs schooner that enforced the Navigation Acts...
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