Six ships and a shore establishment of the

Royal Navy The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom. It is a component of His Majesty's Naval Service, and its officers hold their commissions from the King of the United Kingdom, King. Although warships were used by Kingdom ...

have borne the name HMS ''Britannia'', after

Britannia The image of Britannia () is the national personification of United Kingdom, Britain as a helmeted female warrior holding a trident and shield. An image first used by the Romans in classical antiquity, the Latin was the name variously appli ...

, the goddess and personification of

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: * was a 100-gun first rate

ship of the line A ship of the line was a type of naval warship constructed during the Age of Sail from the 17th century to the mid-19th century. The ship of the line was designed for the naval tactics in the Age of Sail, naval tactic known as the line of battl ...

launched in 1682, rebuilt in 1719 and broken up in 1749. * was a 100-gun first rate launched in 1762. She was renamed HMS ''Princess Royal'' in 1812, HMS ''St George'' later in 1812, and HMS ''Barfleur'' in 1819. She was broken up in 1825. * was a 120-gun first rate ship of the line launched in 1820. She was a training ship after 1859, and broken up in 1869. * , a 120-gun first rate ship of the line renamed ''Britannia'' in 1869, as she replaced the previous vessel in the cadet training role. She was broken up in 1916. * was a ''King Edward VII''-class

pre-dreadnought battleship Pre-dreadnought battleships were sea-going battleships built from the mid- to late- 1880s to the early 1900s. Their designs were conceived before the appearance of in 1906 and their classification as "pre-dreadnought" is retrospectively appli ...

launched in 1904 and sunk by in 1918. * HMS ''Britannia'' Royal Naval College was the name given to the Naval Shore Establishment formed from the earlier ''Britannia''s. It retained the name until 1953, when it became known as HMS ''Dartmouth''.

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