HMS Duke
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Seven ships and a shore establishment of the Royal Navy
have been called HMS Duke:
was a 12-gun ship in service in 1652. was a 90-gun second rate launched in 1682. She was rebuilt in 1701 and renamed HMS Prince George. She was accidentally burnt in 1758.
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 called HMS Duke:
was a 12-gun ship in service in 1652. was a 90-gun second rate launched in 1682. She was rebuilt in 1701 and renamed HMS Prince George. She was accidentally burnt in 1758.
- HMS DukeHMS Vanguard (1678)HMS Vanguard was a 90-gun second-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Portsmouth Dockyard and launched in 1678.She ran onto Goodwin Sands in 1690, but was fortunate enough to be hauled off by the boatmen of Deal....
was a 90-gun second rate launched in 1678 as . She sank in 1703 but was raised in 1704 and rebuilt between 1705 and 1710. She was rebuilt and renamed HMS Duke in 1728 and was broken up in 1769. was an 8-gun fireship purchased in 1739 and expended at St Tropez in 1742. was an 8-gun fireship captured from the French in 1845 and sold in 1748. was a 10-gun storeship which foundered in 1761 off Pondicherry. was a 90-gun second rate launched in 1777 and relegated to harbour service in 1799. She was broken up in 1843. was a training establishment in Malvern, WorcestershireMalvern, WorcestershireMalvern is a town and civil parish in Worcestershire, England, governed by Malvern Town Council. As of the 2001 census it has a population of 28,749, and includes the historical settlement and commercial centre of Great Malvern on the steep eastern flank of the Malvern Hills, and the former...
between 1941 and 1946, later becoming the Royal Radar EstablishmentRoyal Radar EstablishmentThe name Royal Radar Establishment was given to the existing Radar Research Establishment following a visit by Queen Elizabeth II in 1957. Both names were abbreviated to RRE. The establishment had been formed, under its first name, in 1953 by merging the Telecommunications Research Establishment ...
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See also
- HMS Duke of Edinburgh
- HMS Duke of Kent
- HMS Duke of Gloucester
- HMS Duke of WellingtonHMS Duke of WellingtonHMS Duke of Wellington was a 131-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. Launched in 1852, she was symptomatic of an era of rapid technological change in the navy, being powered both by sail and steam...
- HMS Duke of YorkHMS Duke of YorkTwo ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Duke of York, after numerous holders of the title of Duke of York: was a 4-gun cutter purchased in 1763 and sold in 1776....
- HMS Duke William
- HMS Iron DukeHMS Iron DukeThree ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Iron Duke after the Duke of Wellington, nicknamed the "Iron Duke". The name is also a pun, as the first ship so named was an ironclad....