Five major warships and one

shore establishment A stone frigate is a naval establishment on land. 'Stone frigate' is an informal term which has its origin in Britain's Royal Navy (RN), after its use of Diamond Rock, an island off Martinique, as a ' sloop of war' to harass the French in ...

of the

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have been named HMS ''Thunderer :'' * 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 1760. Battle honour: Achille'' 1761'. She was wrecked in 1780. * was a 74-gun third-rate launched in 1783; Battle honours: First of June 1794, St. Lucia 1796 and Trafalgar 1805. Broken up 1814. * was an 84-gun

second-rate In the rating system of the Royal Navy used to categorise sailing warships, a second-rate was a ship of the line which by the start of the 18th century mounted 90 to 98 guns on three gun decks; earlier 17th-century second rates had fewer guns ...

launched in 1831, which fought in Syria 1840. She was used as a target from 1863, was renamed HMS ''Nettle'' in 1870, and was finally sold in 1901. * was a ''Devastation''-class ironclad - the world's first mastless battleships - launched in 1872 and sold in 1909 * was an ''Orion''-class battleship launched in 1911, which fought at Jutland 1916, and was broken up in 1927. * HMS ''Thunderer'' was the name given to the

Royal Naval Engineering College The Royal Naval Engineering College was a specialist establishment for the training of Royal Navy engineers. It was founded as Keyham College in 1880, new buildings were opened in Manadon, Devon in 1940 and the old college site at Keyham close ...

, located at Keyham, and later

Manadon Manadon is a predominantly post-war suburb of Plymouth in the English county of Devon. Roughly geographically situated in the centre of the city, it has a primary school, St Boniface's Catholic College (secondary comprehensive), a sports and ...

. The college was founded in 1880, later commissioned as HMS ''Thunderer'' in 1946, and finally paid off in 1995. The land at Manadon is now the site of a housing development. Additional minor war vessel, and cancelled uses of the name: * HMS Thunderer (1776) was a 14-gun

ketch A ketch is a two- masted sailboat whose mainmast is taller than the mizzen mast (or aft-mast), and whose mizzen mast is stepped forward of the rudder post. The mizzen mast stepped forward of the rudder post is what distinguishes the ketch f ...

-rigged 'Radeau' gun-raft, which was awarded the Battle Honour Lake Champlain 1776, but was lost the following year. * HMS ''Thunderer'' (1818) was to have been a 74-gun third-rate, but she was renamed HMS ''Talavera'' in 1817, prior to her launch in 1818 * was to have been a ''Lion''-class battleship. She was ordered in 1939, but work was suspended in 1942, and she was finally cancelled in 1944

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