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HMS Dreadnought (1875)
HMS Dreadnought, laid down as Fury in 1870, was a Royal Navy ironclad turret battleship launched in 1875 that served in the Mediterranean and was sold for scrap in 1908.
HMS Dreadnought (1906)
HMS Dreadnought was a British battleship completed at Portsmouth Dockyard in 1906, driven by Admiral John Fisher, whose all-big-gun design gave its name to a generation of battleships.
HMS Duke of York (17)
HMS Duke of York (pennant 17) was a King George V-class battleship of the British Royal Navy that crippled the German battlecruiser Scharnhorst at the Battle of North Cape in December 1943.
HMS Duncan (D37)
HMS Duncan (D37) is the sixth and final Type 45 (Daring class) air defence destroyer of the Royal Navy, launched 2010, commissioned 2013, Portsmouth-based, armed with Sea Viper and the first Type 45 with Harpoon.
HMS Endeavour
HMS Endeavour, originally the Earl of Pembroke, was a British collier sailed by James Cook from 1768 to 1771 for scientific discovery, later serving as the transport Lord Sandwich.
HMS Erebus (1826)
HMS Erebus was a Royal Navy bomb vessel, launched in 1826, that carried James Clark Ross to Antarctica and was lost with Franklin's 1845 Northwest Passage expedition.
HMS Exeter (68)
HMS Exeter was a York-class heavy cruiser of the Royal Navy that fought the German Admiral Graf Spee at the Battle of the River Plate in 1939.
HMS Furious (47)
HMS Furious was a Royal Navy aircraft carrier that hosted the first landing of an aircraft on a moving ship in 1917 and was scrapped in 1948.
HMS Glorious
HMS Glorious was a British warship converted from a First World War battlecruiser into an aircraft carrier, sunk by German battlecruisers on 8 June 1940.
HMS Guerriere (1806)
HMS Guerriere (1806), a 38-gun French-built frigate captured by HMS Blanche on 19 July 1806 and taken into the Royal Navy; destroyed by USS Constitution on 19 August 1812 in the War of 1812's first major frigate action, giving Constitution the nickname Old Ironsides.
HMS Hermes (95)
HMS Hermes was a British aircraft carrier, the first ship built from the keel up as a carrier, sunk by Japanese aircraft off Ceylon in 1942.
HMS Hermes (R12)
HMS Hermes (R12) was a Centaur-class aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy, flagship of the 1982 Falklands War task force, later serving India as INS Viraat until 2017.
HMS Holland 1
HMS Holland 1 was the Royal Navy's first submarine, a Holland-type boat built by Vickers at Barrow-in-Furness and launched in 1901, now displayed at Gosport.
HMS Hood
HMS Hood was an Admiral-class battlecruiser of the Royal Navy, launched in 1918, the largest warship in the world for two decades until sunk by the Bismarck in 1941.
HMS Illustrious (R06)
HMS Illustrious (R06), nicknamed "Lusty", was a Royal Navy light aircraft carrier, the second of three Invincible-class ships, which served from 1982 to 2014 and was recycled in Turkey in 2017.
HMS Invincible (R05)
HMS Invincible (R05) was the lead ship of the Royal Navy's three Invincible-class light aircraft carriers, launched in 1977 and sold for recycling in 2011.
HMS Jervis Bay
HMS Jervis Bay: British armed merchant cruiser (F40), ex-1922 Aberdeen & Commonwealth liner, sunk 5 November 1940 by Admiral Scheer while defending convoy HX 84; Captain Fegen posthumous Victoria Cross, 198 dead, 65 survivors.
HMS King George V (41)
HMS King George V was a British fast battleship, lead ship of her class and flagship at the sinking of the German battleship Bismarck in May 1941.
HMS Nelson (28)
HMS Nelson (28) was a British battleship, name ship of the Nelson class, built to the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty's limits; Japanese forces in Malaya surrendered aboard her in 1945.
HMS Networks
HMS Networks is a Swedish industrial technology company headquartered in Halmstad, Sweden, whose Anybus, Ewon, and other brands connect factory machines to industrial networks and IIoT software.
HMS Ocean (L12)
HMS Ocean (L12), the Royal Navy's Landing Platform Helicopter commissioned in 1998, served in Sierra Leone, Iraq, Libya, and Caribbean hurricane relief before sale to Brazil and decommissioning in 2018.
HMS Pandora (1779)
HMS Pandora (1779): Royal Navy 24-gun sixth-rate frigate built at Deptford, launched 17 May 1779, sent in 1790-91 to recapture the Bounty mutineers, wrecked on the Great Barrier Reef 29 August 1791; rediscovered 1977 and excavated by the Queensland Museum.
HMS Prince of Wales (53)
HMS Prince of Wales (pennant number 53) was a King George V-class battleship of the Royal Navy that fought the Bismarck and was sunk off Malaya in December 1941.
HMS Prince of Wales (R09)
HMS Prince of Wales (R09) is the Royal Navy's second Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carrier, a 65,000-tonne flagship commissioned at Portsmouth in 2019 that leads UK Carrier Strike groups and carries F-35B jets.
HMS Protector (A173)
HMS Protector is the Royal Navy's only icebreaker and ice patrol ship, a Norwegian vessel commissioned in 2013 that surveys Antarctic waters, supports research stations, and reached farther north than any Royal Navy ship in 2021.
HMS Queen Elizabeth (1913)
HMS Queen Elizabeth was a British battleship launched in 1913, the first of any navy to mount 15-inch guns and burn oil fuel, serving as flagship in both world wars.
HMS Queen Elizabeth (R08)
HMS Queen Elizabeth (R08) is the lead ship of the Royal Navy's Queen Elizabeth class of aircraft carriers, the largest warships ever built for the United Kingdom.
HMS Queen Mary
HMS Queen Mary was a British battlecruiser, a refined Lion-class ship launched in 1912, destroyed by a magazine explosion at Jutland in 1916 with 1,266 men lost.
HMS Renown (1916)
HMS Renown was a Renown-class battlecruiser of the Royal Navy, launched in 1916, armed with six 15-inch guns, capable of about 32 knots, and sold for scrapping in 1948.
HMS Repulse (1916)
HMS Repulse was a Renown-class battlecruiser of the Royal Navy, launched in 1916, that was sunk by Japanese aircraft off Malaya on 10 December 1941 with heavy loss of life.