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In fact, the abbreviated form "HMS" was not used until nearly the end of the following century, with the term "His Majesty's Ship" (formally altered to "Their Majesties' Ship" between 1689 and 1694, when William I and Mary II were co-rulers, and to "Her Majesty's Ship" between 1702 and 1714, and again from 1837 to 1901, when there was a queen ...
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.
Accomplished Quaker (1801 ship) Active (1801 whaler) Active (1805 ship) French brig Adèle; Adèle (1800 brig) Admiral Cockburn (1814 ship) Admiral Juel; Hired armed cutter Admiral Mitchell; Albatros (19th-century ship) Hired armed cutter Albion; Hired armed lugger Alert; Amelia Wilson (1809 ship) Ann (1807 ship) Anstruther (1800 ship) Atlantic ...
The Armada consisted of about 130 warships and converted merchant ships. After forcing its way up the English Channel, being attacked by the English fleet of about 200 vessels, it anchored off the coast at Gravelines waiting for the army. A fire ship attack drove the Spanish ships from their safe anchorage. The Armada was blown north up the ...
Amphitrite (1802 ship) Anacreon (1800 ship) Andersons (1798 ship) Andrew Marvel (1812 ship) Angola (1799 ship) Anjengo (1802 ship) Ann (1792 ship) Ann (1801 Fowey ship) Ann (1801 ship) Ann (1805 ship) Ann and Eliza (1789 ship) Anna (1739 ship) Anna (1790 ship) Anna (1793 ship) Anna Augusta (1801 ship) Anstruther (1800 ship) Antelope (1798 ship ...
The transport ship was wrecked on the Horse Sand in the English Channel. Her crew were rescued. [195] John Great Britain: The cutter was driven ashore and wrecked at Plymouth, Devon. [195] Hired armed cutter Lion: Royal Navy: The 14-gun hired armed cutter was driven ashore in St. Aubin's Bay but was later refloated. [196] HMS Pelican: Royal Navy
Custine ( France): The privateer was captured in the English Channel by HMS Hinde and sent to Portsmouth, Hampshire. [17] Delight ( France): The ship was captured by Mary and sent to Liverpool, Lancashire, Kingdom of Great Britain. [11] Delight ( Great Britain): The ship was captured by a French privateer off Grenada. [6]
HMS Dreadnought was a Royal Navy 98-gun second rate.This ship of the line was launched at Portsmouth at midday on Saturday, 13 June 1801, after she had spent 13 years on the stocks. [1]