Numerous ships of the British
Royal Navy
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have been named HMS ''Portsmouth'', after the
English port city and home of a
naval base
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.
* , ''Portsmouth'' during the
English Commonwealth
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, a 38-gun fourth-rate
frigate
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The name frigate in the 17th to early 18th centuries was given to any full-rigged ship built for speed and maneuvera ...
launched in 1650 and exploded after being captured by the French ship ''Marquis'' 1689.
* , a 14-gun
ketch
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launched in 1665 and captured in 1673 by the Dutch Navy.
* , a 6-gun
sloop launched in 1667 and captured in 1672 by the Dutch Navy.
*, an 8-gun
yacht
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launched in 1674 and wrecked in 1703.
*, a 32-gun
fifth rate
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Rating
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launched in 1690 and captured by the French Navy in 1696.
*, a 6-gun yacht launched in 1702, rebuilt and renamed HMS ''Medina'' in 1772 and broken up in 1832.
*, a 42-gun fifth rate launched in 1707, converted to a hospital ship in 1720 and broken up in 1728.
*, a
storeship
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launched in 1741 and wrecked in 1747 off
Longsands.
*, a 6-gun yacht launched in 1742 and broken up in 1869.
*, a transport purchased in 1747 and sold in 1767.
*, a 6-gun
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purchased in 1756 and wrecked off
Senegal
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in 1758.
*, a 4-gun transport launched in 1759.
*, an launched in 1811, converted to a coal hulk in 1828 and broken up in 1834.
See also
* , a sixth rate French ship captured in 1694 and recaptured by the French in 1696.
* , a French 4-gun sloop captured in 1655, and captured by Royalists later that year.
References
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Royal Navy ship names