HMS Cordelia
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Four ships of the Royal Navy
have borne the name HMS Cordelia, named after the legendary Queen
of the Britons:
Royal Navy
The Royal Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Founded in the 16th century, it is the oldest service branch and is known as the Senior Service...
have borne the name HMS Cordelia, named after the legendary Queen
Queen Cordelia
Queen Cordelia was a legendary Queen of the Britons, as recounted by Geoffrey of Monmouth. She was the youngest daughter of Leir and the second ruling queen of pre-Roman Britain. There is no independent historical evidence for her existence....
of the Britons:
- HMS Cordelia was a 10-gun Cherokee-class brig-sloop launched in 1808. She was sold in 1833.
- HMS CordeliaHMS Cordelia (1856)HMS Cordelia was an 11-gun Racer-class sloop of the Royal Navy launched in 1856 and sold in 1870.-Design:Built of a traditional wooden construction, the Racer class were a lengthened version of the Swallow-class sloop,Cordelia and Gannet were ordered as Swallow-class ships but the design was...
was a 11-gun Racer-classRacer class sloopThe Racer-class sloop was an 11-gun wooden screw sloop class of five ships built for the Royal Navy between 1855 and 1860.-Design:Built of a traditional wooden construction, the Racer class were a lengthened version of the Swallow-class sloop, which in turn had been intended as "type of screw...
wooden screw sloopSloop-of-warIn the 18th and most of the 19th centuries, a sloop-of-war was a warship with a single gun deck that carried up to eighteen guns. As the rating system covered all vessels with 20 guns and above, this meant that the term sloop-of-war actually encompassed all the unrated combat vessels including the...
launched in 1856. She was sold in 1870. - HMS CordeliaHMS Cordelia (1881)HMS Cordelia was an of the Royal Navy, built at the Portsmouth Dockyard and launched on 25 October 1881.Commenced service on the China Station before being transferred to the Australia Station arriving in April 1890. On 29 June 1891, during gun practice while on a cruise from Fiji to Noumea, a gun...
was a Comus-class screw corvetteCorvetteA corvette is a small, maneuverable, lightly armed warship, originally smaller than a frigate and larger than a coastal patrol craft or fast attack craft , although many recent designs resemble frigates in size and role...
launched in 1881. She was sold in 1904. - HMS CordeliaHMS Cordelia (1914)HMS Cordelia was a C-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was part of the Caroline group of the C-class of cruisers.She was laid down in July 1913, launched 23 February 1914 and commissioned into the navy in January 1915...
was a C-classC class cruiserThe C class was a group of twenty-eight light cruisers of the Royal Navy, and were built in a sequence of seven classes known as the Caroline , Calliope , Cambrian , Centaur , Caledon , Ceres and Carlisle classes...
light cruiserLight cruiserA light cruiser is a type of small- or medium-sized warship. The term is a shortening of the phrase "light armored cruiser", describing a small ship that carried armor in the same way as an armored cruiser: a protective belt and deck...
launched in 1914. She was sold in 1921.