Seven ships of the Royal Navy

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 Queen. It is one of the oldest ship names of the Royal Navy

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...

 dating from the time of Henry III of England

Henry III of England

Henry III was the son and successor of John as King of England, reigning for 56 years from 1216 until his death. His contemporaries knew him as Henry of Winchester. He was the first child king in England since the reign of Æthelred the Unready...

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was a ship built in 1225. Her fate is unknown.

• HMS Queen
  HMS Royal Charles (1673)
  HMS Royal Charles was a 100-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, designed and built by Sir Anthony Deane at Portsmouth Dockyard, where she was launched and completed by his successor as Master Shipwright, Daniel Furzer, in March 1673...
  
   was a 100-gun first rate launched in 1673 as and renamed HMS Queen in 1693, then renamed HMS Royal George in 1715. She was renamed HMS Royal Anne in 1756 and was broken up in 1767. was a 98-gun second rate launched in 1769. She was reduced to 74 guns in 1811 and was broken up in 1821. was a 110-gun first rate launched in 1839. In 1859 the ship was fitted with a screw propeller and reduced to 86 guns. She was broken up in 1871. was a paddle sloop
  Sloop-of-war
  In 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 1839 and listed until 1860. was a Formidable-class
  Formidable class battleship
  The Royal Navy's Formidable class battleships was an eight-ship class of pre-dreadnoughts designed by Sir William White and built in the late 1890s...
  
   pre-dreadnought
  Pre-dreadnought
  Pre-dreadnought battleship is the general term for all of the types of sea-going battleships built between the mid-1890s and 1905. Pre-dreadnoughts replaced the ironclad warships of the 1870s and 1880s...
  
   battleship
  Battleship
  A 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 1902. She was sold in 1920 and broken up in 1921. was a Bogue class
  Bogue class escort carrier
  The Bogue-class were a group of escort carriers built in the United States for service with the U.S. Navy and the Royal Navy during World War II....
  
   escort carrier, formerly the USS St Andrews. She was launched in 1943 and transferred to the Royal Navy that year. She was returned to the US Navy in 1946.

The battle honours of all HM Ships Queen have been inherited by HMCS Queen, the Canadian Naval Reserve Division in Regina, Saskatchewan. HMCS QUEEN holds certain artifacts from the last HMS Queen.

Battle Honours

• Ushant 1781
  Battle of Ushant (1781)
  The Second Battle of Ushant was a naval battle fought between French and British squadrons near Ushant on 12 December 1781, during the American War of Independence.-Battle:...
  
  
• First of June 1794
  Glorious First of June
  The Glorious First of June [Note A] of 1794 was the first and largest fleet action of the naval conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the First French Republic during the French Revolutionary Wars...
  
  
• Groix Island 1795
  Battle of Groix
  The Second Battle of Groix was a naval engagement that took place on 23 June 1795 during the French Revolutionary War off the west coast of France....
  
  
• Crimea 1854-55
  Crimean War
  The Crimean War was a conflict fought between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the French Empire, the British Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the Kingdom of Sardinia. The war was part of a long-running contest between the major European powers for influence over territories of the declining...
  
  
• Dardanelles 1915
  Naval operations in the Dardanelles Campaign
  The naval operations in the Dardanelles Campaign of the First World War were mainly carried out by the Royal Navy with substantial support from the French and minor contributions from Russia and Australia. The Dardanelles Campaign began as a purely naval operation...
  
  
• Atlantic 1944
• Norway 1945
• Arctic 1945