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Where applicable, number of main guns follows name (see Rating system of the Royal Navy). Note that long-lived ships could be rearmed several times. Many earlier ships went through periodic repairs and rebuildings (many now unrecorded) during which their dimensions and their armament changed considerably.
The original 1920s edition of the H. P. Gibson naval board game Dover Patrol used a number of real RN ship names, but generally attached them to different ship classes. Thus the " Flagships " were H.M.S. Nelson and Drake , and the " Super Dreadnoughts " were H.M.S. Australia , New Zealand , Canada and India , but few of these resembled the ...
This is a list of ships of the line of the Royal Navy of England, and later (from 1707) of Great Britain, and the United Kingdom.The list starts from 1660, the year in which the Royal Navy came into being after the restoration of the monarchy under Charles II, up until the emergence of the battleship around 1880, as defined by the Admiralty.
This is a list of all naval vessels ever used by the United Kingdom under the Royal Navy and other UK maritime organisations or groups that participated in UK conflicts. . This list will consist of lists of naval vessels used at specific time periods such as World War II and the Modern day as well as a list of Royal Navy ship names that will look at all Royal Navy ships ever u
A. Abercromby (1795 ship) HMS Abergavenny; Achilles (1781 ship) Active (1764 ship) Active (1800 ship) Active (1801 whaler) Adamant (1811 ship) MV Admiral Ushakov
The post ships, generally of 20 or 24 guns, were in practice the continuation of the earlier sixth rates. The Napoleonic War era post ships were later re-armed with (many being completed with) 32-pounder carronades instead of nine-pounder guns; after 1817 most of the survivors (except the Conway class), were re-classified as sloops.
ships of the line; submarines; support ships; survey vessels; shore establishments; hospitals and hospital ships; air stations; aircraft wings; fleets and major commands; squadrons and flotillas; early English ships (1409–1660) early Scots ships (1329–1707)
Diadem (1800 ship) Diamond (1798 ship) Diamond (1835 ship) Diana (1818 ship) Diana (1824 ship) Dick (1788 ship) Doddington (East Indiaman) Doncaster (1825 ship) Dorothy (1815 ship) Dorset (1838 ship) Dotterel (1817 ship) Drummore (1830 ship) DuBuc (1797 ship) Duff (1794 ship) HMS Duguay-Trouin (1780) Duke of Bronte (1800 ship) Duke of Clarence ...