HMS Keppel
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HMS Keppel can refer to ships of the Royal Navy named after Admiral Augustus Keppel
- HMS Keppel - a Thornycroft type destroyer leaderThornycroft type leaderThe Thornycroft type leader or Shakespeare class were a class of five destroyer leaders designed by John I. Thornycroft & Company and built by them at Woolston, Southampton for the Royal Navy towards the end of World War I. They were named after historical naval leaders. Only Shakespeare and...
, launched 1920, broken up 1945. - HMS KeppelHMS Keppel (F85)HMS Keppel was a Blackwood or Type 14 class second-rate anti-submarine frigate of the British Royal Navy.She was scrapped at Sittingbourne in 1979...
- a Blackwood class frigateBlackwood class frigateThe Type 14, Blackwood, class were a twelve ship class of "second rate" anti-submarine warfare frigates of the Royal Navy, designed and built during the increasing threat from the Soviet Union's large fleet of submarines that roamed the Atlantic Ocean.-Design:They were designed to be cheaper and...
, decommissioned in the 1970s