HMS Devastation
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Four ships of the Royal Navy
have been named HMS Devastation.
was an 8-gun bomb vessel
purchased in 1804 and sold in 1816.
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 been named HMS Devastation.
was an 8-gun bomb vessel
Bomb vessel
A bomb vessel, bomb ship, bomb ketch, or simply bomb was a type of wooden sailing naval ship. Its primary armament was not cannon —although bomb vessels carried a few cannon for self-defence—but rather mortars mounted forward near the bow and elevated to a high angle, and projecting their fire in a...
purchased in 1804 and sold in 1816.
- HMS Devastation was to have been a 14-gun bomb vessel. She was laid down in 1820, but was cancelled in 1831. was a paddle 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 1841 and broken up in 1866. was a Devastation classDevastation class battleshipThe two British Devastation-class battleships of the 1870s were the first class of ocean-going capital ship that did not carry sails, and the first which mounted the entire main armament on top of the hull rather than inside it...
turret shipTurret shipTurret ships were a 19th century type of warship, the earliest to have their guns mounted in a revolving gun turret, instead of a broadside arrangement....
launched in 1871 and sold in 1908.