Five ships of the
Royal Navy
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have been named HMS ''Princess Royal'':
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HMS ''Princess Royal'' (1728) was a 90-gun
second rate
In the rating system of the Royal Navy used to categorise sailing warships, a second-rate was a ship of the line which by the start of the 18th century mounted 90 to 98 guns on three gun decks; earlier 17th-century second rates had fewer guns ...
launched in 1682 as . She was renamed HMS ''Prince'' in 1705, HMS ''Princess'' in 1716 and HMS ''Princess Royal'' in 1728. She was broken up in 1773.
*
HMS ''Princess Royal'' (1739) was the former
East Indiaman of the same name that the Navy purchased in 1739 and used first as a hospital ship and then as a 24-gun
storeship, before selling her in 1750.
* was a 90-gun second-rate launched in 1773. She was rearmed to 98 guns in 1800, and then 74 guns in 1807, before being broken up in 1807.
* was a 91-gun screw-propelled second-rate, originally to have been named HMS ''Prince Albert''. She was launched in 1853 and sold in 1872.
* was a launched in 1911 and sold in 1922.
Battle honours
Ships named ''Princess Royal'' have earned the following
battle honours
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:
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Genoa
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, 1795
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Baltic
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, 1854
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Crimea
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, 1855
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Heligoland
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, 1914
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Dogger Bank
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During the last ice age the bank was part of a large landmass ...
, 1915
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Jutland
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, 1916
See also
*
Princess Royal (ship) Many ships have been named ''Princess Royal'', including:
Royal Navy
United States Navy
* , a captured blockade runner, purchased in 1863 and sold in 1865.
East India Company
Merchant ships
* , a British merchant sloop built in 1778 and captur ...
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Post Office Packet Service
The Post Office Packet Service dates to Tudor times and ran until 1823, when the Admiralty assumed control of the service. Originally, the Post Office used packet ships to carry mail packets to and from British embassies, colonies and outposts. Th ...
for an account of the packet ''Princess Royal''s successful resistance against a French privateer.
References
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Royal Navy ship names