HMS Royal George
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Eight 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 Royal George after various members of the House of Hanover
House of Hanover
The House of Hanover is a deposed German royal dynasty which has ruled the Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg , the Kingdom of Hanover, the Kingdom of Great Britain, the Kingdom of Ireland and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland...

. A ninth was renamed before being launched:
  • HMS Royal George
    HMS Royal James (1675)
    HMS Royal James was a 100-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, designed by Sir Anthony Deane and built by his successor as Master Shipwright at Portsmouth Dockyard, Daniel Furzer, and launched in 1675. She was renamed HMS Victory on 7 March 1691 as the old second rate Victory of 1666...

     was a 100-gun first-rate
    First-rate
    First rate was the designation used by the Royal Navy for its largest ships of the line. While the size and establishment of guns and men changed over the 250 years that the rating system held sway, from the early years of the eighteenth century the first rates comprised those ships mounting 100...

     ship of the line
    Ship of the line
    A ship of the line was a type of naval warship constructed from the 17th through the mid-19th century to take part in the naval tactic known as the line of battle, in which two columns of opposing warships would manoeuvre to bring the greatest weight of broadside guns to bear...

     launched as HMS Royal James
    HMS Royal James (1675)
    HMS Royal James was a 100-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, designed by Sir Anthony Deane and built by his successor as Master Shipwright at Portsmouth Dockyard, Daniel Furzer, and launched in 1675. She was renamed HMS Victory on 7 March 1691 as the old second rate Victory of 1666...

     in 1675. She was renamed HMS Victory in 1691, HMS Royal George in 1714 and HMS Victory again in 1715.
  • HMS Royal George
    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 as Royal Charles
    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...

     in 1673 and renamed HMS Queen in 1693, HMS Royal George in 1715 and HMS Royal Anne in 1756. was a 100-gun first-rate launched in 1756. She served in the Seven Years' War
    Seven Years' War
    The Seven Years' War was a global military war between 1756 and 1763, involving most of the great powers of the time and affecting Europe, North America, Central America, the West African coast, India, and the Philippines...

     and the American War of Independence and sank at Spithead in 1782. was a 20-gun 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...

     listed as serving on the Canadian lakes in 1776. was a 100-gun first-rate launched in 1788 and broken up in 1822. was a 20-gun sloop launched in 1809. She served on the Canadian lakes in the War of 1812
    War of 1812
    The War of 1812 was a military conflict fought between the forces of the United States of America and those of the British Empire. The Americans declared war in 1812 for several reasons, including trade restrictions because of Britain's ongoing war with France, impressment of American merchant...

    , was renamed HMS Niagara in 1814 and was sold in 1837.
  • HMY Royal George
    HMY Royal George
    HMY Royal George was a Royal Yacht of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom, launched 1817, and last used in 1842. She became an accommodation hulk in 1902, and was broken up in 1905....

     was a yacht launched in 1817 and broken up in 1905. was a 120-gun first-rate launched in 1827, fitted with screw propulsion in 1853 and sold in 1875.
  • HMS Royal George
    HMS King George V (1911)
    The first HMS King George V was a King George V-class of 1911 dreadnought, with a displacement of 23,400 tonnes and an armament of ten 13.5 inch guns in twin gun turrets and a secondary armament of sixteen 4 inch guns and had a crew complement of 870, though this increased...

     was to have been a 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...

    , but she was renamed before she was launched in 1911.

See also

  • The Royal George, Timothy Hackworth's steam locomotive of 1828
  • Royal George, Tasmania
    Royal George, Tasmania
    Royal George is a village in north east Tasmania of the St Pauls River. At the 2006 census, Royal George had a population of 127.It was a mining village, with the mine and locality named after one of the HMS Royal George ships from the 19th century....

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