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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 page is a list of famous ships and sailors of the Royal Navy. The list is composed of famous sailors of the Royal Navy e.g. Horatio Nelson. The list also includes people who are famous and have served with the Royal Navy at some point e.g. Alec Guinness. This list also includes ships that have become famous in their own right, e.g. Mary Rose.
This is an incomplete list of people that have or had ships or ship classes named after them, or the name is associated with the person. The ships are currently or were previously in service with the Royal Navy, the United Kingdom's naval warfare force; or with predecessor fleets formally in the service of the Kingdom of England; or of the English Commonwealth.
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.
Pages in category "Royal Navy ship names" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 2,414 total. ... HMS A1; HMS A2; HMS A3; HMS A4; HMS A5 ...
HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate wooden sailing ship of the line.With 246 years of service as of 2024, she is the world's oldest naval vessel still in commission.She was ordered for the Royal Navy in 1758, during the Seven Years' War and laid down in 1759.
RN auxiliary ships Survey Class Ship No. Commissioned Displacement Type Homeport Note — HMS Scott: H131: 1997: 13,500 tonnes: Ocean survey: Devonport [76] — HMS Protector: A173: 2011: 5,000 tonnes: Icebreaker & survey [77] [N 16] Sea class 18 m variant: HMS Magpie: H130: 2018: 37 tonnes: Survey motor launch [79] Non-commissioned vessels ...
Hotel Ship in Dubai: HMS Invincible: Royal Navy: 3 May 1977 Vickers Shipbuilding Limited, Barrow-in-Furness, England Scrapped in 2011 HMS Lancaster: Royal Navy: 24 May 1990 [7] Yarrow Shipbuilders, Glasgow, Scotland: In service RRS James Clark Ross: British Antarctic Survey: 1st December 1990 [8] Swan Hunter Shipbuilders in Wallsend, UK In service