HMS Drake
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Nineteen ships and a shore establishment of the Royal Navy
have been named HMS Drake after Sir Francis Drake
or after the drake
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was a 16-gun ship launched in 1653 and sold in 1691. was a 24-gun sixth rate launched in 1694 and wrecked later that year. was a 2-gun yacht
launched in 1705. She was rebuilt in 1727 and was sold in 1749. was a 14-gun sloop
launched in 1705, rebuilt in 1729 and broken up in 1740. was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1736, converted into a bomb vessel
in 1748 and sold in 1755. was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1740 and wrecked in 1742. The wreck was sold in 1748. was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1743 and sold in 1748.
Royal Navy
The Royal Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Founded in the 16th century, it is the oldest service branch and is known as the Senior Service...
have been named HMS Drake after Sir Francis Drake
Francis Drake
Sir Francis Drake, Vice Admiral was an English sea captain, privateer, navigator, slaver, and politician of the Elizabethan era. Elizabeth I of England awarded Drake a knighthood in 1581. He was second-in-command of the English fleet against the Spanish Armada in 1588. He also carried out the...
or after the drake
European dragon
European dragons are legendary creatures in folklore and mythology among the overlapping cultures of Europe.In European folklore, a dragon is a serpentine legendary creature. The Latin word draco, as in constellation Draco, comes directly from Greek δράκων,...
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was a 16-gun ship launched in 1653 and sold in 1691. was a 24-gun sixth rate launched in 1694 and wrecked later that year. was a 2-gun yacht
Yacht
A yacht is a recreational boat or ship. The term originated from the Dutch Jacht meaning "hunt". It was originally defined as a light fast sailing vessel used by the Dutch navy to pursue pirates and other transgressors around and into the shallow waters of the Low Countries...
launched in 1705. She was rebuilt in 1727 and was sold in 1749. was a 14-gun sloop
Sloop-of-war
In the 18th and most of the 19th centuries, a sloop-of-war was a warship with a single gun deck that carried up to eighteen guns. As the rating system covered all vessels with 20 guns and above, this meant that the term sloop-of-war actually encompassed all the unrated combat vessels including the...
launched in 1705, rebuilt in 1729 and broken up in 1740. was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1736, converted into a bomb vessel
Bomb vessel
A bomb vessel, bomb ship, bomb ketch, or simply bomb was a type of wooden sailing naval ship. Its primary armament was not cannon —although bomb vessels carried a few cannon for self-defence—but rather mortars mounted forward near the bow and elevated to a high angle, and projecting their fire in a...
in 1748 and sold in 1755. was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1740 and wrecked in 1742. The wreck was sold in 1748. was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1743 and sold in 1748.
- HMS DrakeHMS Resolution (Cook)HMS Resolution was a sloop of the Royal Navy, and the ship in which Captain James Cook made his second and third voyages of exploration in the Pacific...
was a 12-gun sloop launched as the civilian Marquis of Granby. She was purchased in 1770 and briefly named HMS Drake. She was renamed HMS Resolution in 1771 and served James CookJames CookCaptain James Cook, FRS, RN was a British explorer, navigator and cartographer who ultimately rose to the rank of captain in the Royal Navy...
on his second and third voyages of discovery in the Pacific. She was captured in 1782 by the French ship Sphinx. was a 14-gun sloop launched as the civilian Resolution. She was purchased in 1777 and captured in 1778 by the American sloop USS RangerUSS Ranger (1777)The first USS Ranger was a sloop-of-war in the Continental Navy, and received the second salute to an American fighting vessel by a foreign power The first USS Ranger was a sloop-of-war in the Continental Navy, and received the second salute to an American fighting vessel by a foreign power The...
. was a 14-gun brig-sloop launched in 1779 and condemned in 1800. was a 14-gun brig-sloop, formerly the French privateerPrivateerA privateer is a private person or ship authorized by a government by letters of marque to attack foreign shipping during wartime. Privateering was a way of mobilizing armed ships and sailors without having to spend public money or commit naval officers...
Tigre. She was captured in 1798 by HMS Melpomene and wrecked in 1804. - HMS Drake (1804)Earl of Mornington (East Indiaman)Earl of Mornington was an East India Company packet ship built in 1799 by Perry, Wells & Green of Blackwall. She performed one voyage for the East India Company, sailing from England to India and returning...
was a 16-gun sloop, launched in 1799 for the East India CompanyEast India CompanyThe East India Company was an early English joint-stock company that was formed initially for pursuing trade with the East Indies, but that ended up trading mainly with the Indian subcontinent and China...
as the civilian Earl of Mornington. She was purchased in 1804 and broken up in 1808. was a 10-gun Cherokee-classCherokee class brig-sloopThe Cherokee class was a 10-gun class of brig-sloops of the Royal Navy. Brig-sloops are sloops-of-war with two masts rather than the three masts of ship-sloops...
brig-sloop launched in 1808 and wrecked in 1822. was a mortar vessel launched in 1834 as a dockyard lighterLighter (barge)A lighter is a type of flat-bottomed barge used to transfer goods and passengers to and from moored ships. Lighters were traditionally unpowered and were moved and steered using long oars called "sweeps," with their motive power provided by water currents...
and converted in 1854. She was renamed MV 1 in 1855, followed by HMS Sheppey after being returned to a lighter in 1856. She was broken up in 1867. was a Clown-class gunboatGunboatA gunboat is a naval watercraft designed for the express purpose of carrying one or more guns to bombard coastal targets, as opposed to those military craft designed for naval warfare, or for ferrying troops or supplies.-History:...
launched in 1856 and sold in 1859. was a cutter, formerly named YC 1 and acquired and renamed in 1870. She had previously been HMS Hart. She was broken up in 1875. - HMS Drake was a Forester-class composite screw gunboat launched in 1875 as HMS Sheldrake. She was renamed HMS Drake when she became a training ship in 1888. She was renamed WV 29 in 1893, and was renamed HMS Drake in 1906 before being sold later that year. was a Drake-classDrake class cruiserThe Drake-class was a four-ship class of armoured cruisers built around 1900 for the Royal Navy.-Design:The class were enlarged versions of the Cressy class.-History:The ships served in the First World War with only two surviving it...
armoured cruiser launched in 1901 and sunk in 1917. - HMS DrakeHMS Marshal NeyHMS Marshal Ney was a Royal Navy Marshal Ney class monitor constructed in the opening years of the First World War. Laid down as M13, she was named for the French general of the Napoleonic Wars Marshal Michel Ney....
was previously the Marshal Ney-classMarshal Ney class monitorThe two Marshal Ney class monitors were built for the Royal Navy during the First World War-Design and development:The need for monitors for shelling enemy positions from the English Channel had become apparent only at the start of the war and they were designed with some haste...
monitorMonitor (warship)A monitor was a class of relatively small warship which was neither fast nor strongly armoured but carried disproportionately large guns. They were used by some navies from the 1860s until the end of World War II, and saw their final use by the United States Navy during the Vietnam War.The monitors...
HMS Marshal NeyHMS Marshal NeyHMS Marshal Ney was a Royal Navy Marshal Ney class monitor constructed in the opening years of the First World War. Laid down as M13, she was named for the French general of the Napoleonic Wars Marshal Michel Ney....
. She was launched in 1915, became a base ship and was renamed HMS Vivid in 1922, HMS Drake in 1934 and HMS Alaunia II in 1947. She was broken up in 1957. - HMS DrakeHMNB DevonportHer Majesty's Naval Base Devonport , is one of three operating bases in the United Kingdom for the Royal Navy . HMNB Devonport is located in Devonport, in the west of the city of Plymouth in Devon, England...
is the name now given to HMNB DevonportHMNB DevonportHer Majesty's Naval Base Devonport , is one of three operating bases in the United Kingdom for the Royal Navy . HMNB Devonport is located in Devonport, in the west of the city of Plymouth in Devon, England...
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