HMS Imperieuse
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Six ships and a training establishment of the Royal Navy
have borne the name HMS Imperieuse.
was a 40-gun fifth rate captured from the French
in 1793. She was renamed HMS Unite in 1803, was on harbour service from 1832, and was broken up in 1858.
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 Imperieuse.
was a 40-gun fifth rate captured from the French
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
in 1793. She was renamed HMS Unite in 1803, was on harbour service from 1832, and was broken up in 1858.
- HMS Imperieuse was a 40-gun fifth rate captured from the DutchNetherlandsThe Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
in 1799. She was renamed HMS Imperieuse in 1801 and was broken up in 1805. - HMS Imperieuse was a 38-gun fifth rate, previously the Spanish ship Medea. She was captured in 1804 and was taken into service as Iphigenia but renamed Imperieuse in 1805, placed on harbour service in 1818 and sold in 1838. was a wooden screw frigateScrew frigateSteam frigates and the smaller steam corvettes were steam-powered warships.The first vessel that can be considered a steam frigate was the Demologos which was launched in 1815 for the United States Navy....
launched in 1852 and sold in 1867. was an Imperieuse-classImperieuse class cruiserThe Imperieuse class cruiser was a class of two armoured cruisers launched between 1883 and 1884 for the Royal Navy.-History:In an 1886 magazine article, Sir Edward Reed complained that these ships did not deserve to be called "armoured", as they were not armoured at bow or stern, only along the...
armoured cruiser launched in 1883. She was converted into a depot ship in 1905 and renamed HMS Sapphire II. The name was reverted to Imperieuse in 1909 and she was sold in 1913. - HMS ImperieuseHMS Audacious (1869)HMS Audacious was the lead ship of the s built for the Royal Navy in the late 1860s. They were designed as second-class ironclads suitable for use on foreign stations and the ship spent the bulk of her career on the China Station. She was decommissioned in 1894 and hulked in 1902 for use as a...
was the former ironcladIronclad warshipAn ironclad was a steam-propelled warship in the early part of the second half of the 19th century, protected by iron or steel armor plates. The ironclad was developed as a result of the vulnerability of wooden warships to explosive or incendiary shells. The first ironclad battleship, La Gloire,...
battleshipBattleshipA battleship is a large armored warship with a main battery consisting of heavy caliber guns. Battleships were larger, better armed and armored than cruisers and destroyers. As the largest armed ships in a fleet, battleships were used to attain command of the sea and represented the apex of a...
launched in 1869 as . She became HMS Imperieuse in 1914 whilst serving as a repair ship. She was sold in 1927. was a stoker's training establishment set up in 1944 aboard the obsolete battleships and . The establishment was paid off in 1948.