Six ships and a training establishment of the
Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against ...
have borne the name HMS ''Imperieuse'':
* was a 40-gun
fifth-rate
In the rating system of the Royal Navy used to categorise sailing warships, a fifth rate was the second-smallest class of warships in a hierarchical system of six " ratings" based on size and firepower.
Rating
The rating system in the Royal ...
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.
* was a 40-gun
fifth rate
In the rating system of the Royal Navy used to categorise sailing warships, a fifth rate was the second-smallest class of warships in a hierarchical system of six " ratings" based on size and firepower.
Rating
The rating system in the Royal ...
that the Dutch launched on 30 October 1797 and the British captured in 1799. The Royal Navy renamed her ''Imperieuse'' in 1801; she was broken up in 1805.
* was a 38-gun fifth-rate, previously the Spanish ship ''Medea'' (1797). She was captured in 1804 and taken into service as HMS ''Iphigenia'' but renamed ''Imperieuse'' in 1805, placed on harbour service in 1818, and sold in 1838.
* was a wooden
screw frigate
Steam frigates (including screw frigates) and the smaller steam corvettes, steam sloops, steam gunboats and steam schooners, were steam-powered warships that were not meant to stand in the line of battle. There were some exceptions like for exa ...
launched in 1852 and sold in 1867.
* was an
armoured cruiser launched in 1883. She was converted into a
depot ship
A depot ship is an auxiliary ship used as a mobile or fixed base for submarines, destroyers, minesweepers, fast attack craft, landing craft, or other small ships with similarly limited space for maintenance equipment and crew dining, berthing and ...
in 1905 and renamed HMS ''Sapphire II''. The name reverted to ''Imperieuse'' in 1909 and she was sold in 1913.
*
HMS ''Imperieuse'' was the former
ironclad battleship launched in 1869 as HMS ''Audacious''. 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.
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Royal Navy ship names