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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 ...

ships have had the name of HMS ''Culloden'', after the

battle of Culloden The Battle of Culloden took place on 16 April 1746, near Inverness in the Scottish Highlands. A Jacobite army under Charles Edward Stuart was decisively defeated by a British government force commanded by the Duke of Cumberland, thereby endi ...

which took place in

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in 1746 and saw the defeat of the

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. *HMS ''Culloden'' was renamed before her launch in 1747 to . * was a 74-gun

third rate In the rating system of the Royal Navy, a third rate was a ship of the line which from the 1720s mounted between 64 and 80 guns, typically built with two gun decks (thus the related term two-decker). Rating When the rating system was f ...

launched in 1747 and sold in 1770. * was a 2-gun storeship

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launched in 1749 and sold in 1765. * was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1776 and wrecked in 1781 during the

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near

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. * was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1783. She participated in the

Battle of the Nile The Battle of the Nile (also known as the Battle of Aboukir Bay; ) was fought between the Royal Navy and the French Navy at Abu Qir Bay, Aboukir Bay in Ottoman Egypt, Egypt between 1–3 August 1798. It was the climax of the Mediterranean ca ...

, where she ran aground. She was broken up in 1813.

References

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