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Ships of the Royal Navy. This is an alphabetical list of the names of all ships that have been in service with the Royal Navy, or with predecessor fleets formally in the service of the Kingdom of England or the Commonwealth of England. The list also includes fictional vessels which have prominently featured in literature about the Royal Navy.
Bounty: scene of the famous mutiny. Victory: Nelson's flagship. This ship is still officially in service and is the world's oldest commissioned warship and the flagship of the First Sea Lord. Beagle: carried Charles Darwin on his voyage. Warrior: Britain's first iron hulled, armoured battleship. Dreadnought: first "all big-gun" battleship.
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.
Missouri (BB-63), famous for being the ship on which the Japanese instrument of surrender was signed, was the last battleship in the world to be decommissioned on 31 March 1992. Seven of these ten ships are still in existence. South Dakota, Washington and Indiana were scrapped, but the remainder are now museum ships.
Dreadnought. Austro-Hungarian Navy. Torpedoed by Italian MAS 15 off Premuda, 10 June 1918 – sinking was filmed. Tango. 1894-11-06. Petropavlovsk class. Pre-dreadnought. Imperial Japanese Navy. Ex-Russian Poltava, captured after the Siege of Port Arthur 1905 – sold back to Russia 1916, renamed Chesma.
Canada: List of ships of the Royal Canadian Navy. List of current ships of the Royal Canadian Navy. China: List of ships of the People's Liberation Army Navy. Egypt: List of ships of the Egyptian Navy. Finland: List of decommissioned ships of the Finnish Navy. List of active Finnish Navy ships. Germany:
São João (de Portugal) 4 Galleys commanded by Captain Diego de Medrano: Capitana, Princesa, Diana, and Bazana (50 guns each), known in Spanish as the galleys of San Juan de Portugal and in English as Saint John of Portugal. Vice-flagship (Fleet Almiranta). Captained by Recalde (captain of this ship later in the expedition). São Marcos (33 guns).
Yard and district craft. v. t. e. List of United States Navy ships is a comprehensive listing of all ships that have been in service to the United States Navy during the history of that service. The US Navy maintains its official list of ships past and present at the Naval Vessel Register (NVR), [1] although it does not include early vessels.