Seven ships of the
Royal Navy
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have been named HMS ''Princess'', HMS ''Princesse'' or HMS ''Princessa'':
* was a 54-gun
fourth rate launched in 1660 and broken up in 1680.
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HMS ''Princess'' was a 90-gun
second rate 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.
* was a 70-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). Years of experience proved that the third r ...
, originally the Spanish ship ''Princessa''. She was captured in 1740, hulked in 1760 and sold in 1784.
* was a 70-gun third rate, originally the . She was captured in 1780, became a
sheer hulk in 1784 and was broken up in 1809.
* was rated as a 28-gun
sixth rate, originally the
Dutch East Indiaman
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''Williamstadt en Boetzlaar''. She was captured on 18 August 1795 at the
Capitulation of Saldanha Bay, and became a 26-gun floating
battery
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in 1800. She was sold in 1816.
* was the former SS ''Kronprincess Cecilie'', launched in 1905. Captured in 1914, she was renamed as ''Princess'' and used as a dummy for .
* was a hired patrol vessel which sank in 1940 after a collision
In addition, many ships have been named after specific princesses, including:
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Royal Navy ship names