Twenty-two ships of the
Royal Navy
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have borne the name HMS ''Fortune'':
* was a ship in service in 1512.
* was a ship in service in 1522.
* was a ship, formerly the French ''Fortunee''. She was captured in 1627 and last appears on navy lists in 1635.
* was a 12-gun
Royalist
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ship, captured by the
Parliamentarians in 1644 and renamed ''Robert''. She was captured by Irish Royalists in 1649.
* was a 12-gun Royalist ship purchased in 1644 and captured that year by the Parliamentarians. She was renamed ''Dove'', and was lost in 1650.
* was a ship captured in 1651, and captured in 1652 by the Dutch.
* was a 10-gun
fireship
A fire ship or fireship is a large wooden vessel set on fire to be used against enemy ships during a ramming attack or similar maneuver. Fireships were used to great effect against wooden ships throughout naval military history up until the adv ...
captured in 1652 and last listed in 1653.
* was a 32-gun ship, formerly the French ''Fortunee''. She was captured in 1652 and sold in 1654.
* was a 6-gun fireship captured in 1666 and expended later that year.
* was a 4-gun
flyboat
The flyboat (also spelled ''fly-boat'' or ''fly boat'') was a European light vessel of Dutch origin developed primarily as a mercantile cargo carrier, although many served as warships in an auxiliary role because of their agility. These vessels co ...
captured from the Dutch in 1666 and sunk as a
blockship
A blockship is a ship deliberately sunk to prevent a river, channel, or canal from being used as a waterway. It may either be sunk by a navy defending the waterway to prevent the ingress of attacking enemy forces, as in the case of at Portland ...
in 1667.
* was an 8-gun flyboat captured from the Dutch in 1672 and sold in 1674.
* was a storeship purchased in 1699 and wrecked in 1700.
* was a storeship captured in 1700 and still on navy lists in 1702.
* was a 24-gun storeship launched in 1709 and sold in 1713.
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HMS ''Fortune'' was a 14-gun
sloop launched in 1744. She was captured by the French in 1745, was recaptured as an 18-gun sloop in 1746, and had been renamed HMS ''Fortune'' by 1756. She was converted to a fireship in 1759 and was sold in 1770.
* was a 10-gun
brig-sloop
During the 18th and 19th centuries, a sloop-of-war was a warship of the Royal Navy with a single gun deck that carried up to 18 guns. The rating system of the Royal Navy covered all vessels with 20 or more guns; thus, the term encompassed all ...
purchased in 1770 and still in service in 1772.
* was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1778 and captured by the French in April 1780 and served with the French navy under the same name. In October 1783 she became a
packet ship
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under the name ''Courrier de Lorieint'' (and later ''Courrier de Lorient No.3''), serving out of
Lorient
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History
Prehistory and classical antiquity
Beginn ...
on the line Lorient-New York. In January 1787 she was transferred to the Régie des Paquebots, for whom she served on the Havre-New York line. She was put up for sale at Havre in December 1788 and sold in January 1789 to Mr. Ruellan.
[Demerliac (1996), p.216, #2208.]
* was a 14-gun sloop captured from the Americans in 1779 and lost in 1780.
* was a 14-gun brig-sloop launched in 1780 and wrecked in 1797.
* was an 18-gun sloop captured from the French in 1798 and recaptured by them in 1799.
* was an launched in 1913 and sunk at the
Battle of Jutland
The Battle of Jutland () was a naval battle between Britain's Royal Navy Grand Fleet, under Admiral John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, Sir John Jellicoe, and the Imperial German Navy's High Seas Fleet, under Vice-Admiral Reinhard Scheer, durin ...
in 1916.
* was an
F-class destroyer launched in 1934. She was transferred to the
Royal Canadian Navy
The Royal Canadian Navy (RCN; , ''MRC'') is the Navy, naval force of Canada. The navy is one of three environmental commands within the Canadian Armed Forces. As of February 2024, the RCN operates 12 s, 12 s, 4 s, 4 s, 8 s, and several auxiliary ...
in 1943 as , and was broken up in 1946.
See also
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Citations
References
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*Demerliac, Alain (1996) ''La Marine De Louis XVI: Nomenclature Des Navires Français De 1774 À 1792''. (Nice: Éditions OMEGA).
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Royal Navy ship names