HMS Tenedos
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Four ships and a training establishment of the Royal Navy
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 borne the name HMS Tenedos, after the island of Tenedos
Tenedos
Tenedos or Bozcaada or Bozdja-Ada is a small island in the Aegean Sea, part of the Bozcaada district of Çanakkale province in Turkey. , Tenedos has a population of about 2,354. The main industries are tourism, wine production and fishing...

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Ships

was a 38-gun fifth rate launched in 1812. She was used as a convict hulk from 1843 and was broken up in 1875. was a wooden Eclipse class
Eclipse class sloop
The Eclipse class was a class of seven 6-gun wooden screw sloops built for the Royal Navy between 1867 and 1870. They were re-armed and re-classified as 12-gun corvettes in 1876. Two further vessel were proposed but never ordered.-Design:...

 screw sloop
Screw sloop
A screw sloop is a propeller-driven sloop-of-war. In the 19th century, during the introduction of the steam engine, ships driven by propellers were differentiated from those driven by paddle-wheels by referring to the ship's screws...

 launched in 1870. She was rated as a corvette
Corvette
A corvette is a small, maneuverable, lightly armed warship, originally smaller than a frigate and larger than a coastal patrol craft or fast attack craft , although many recent designs resemble frigates in size and role...

 from 1875 and was sold in 1887.
  • HMS Tenedos
    HMS Triumph (1870)
    HMS Triumph was a broadside ironclad battleship of the Victorian era, the sister-ship of . These two ships comprise the Swiftsure class of 1870....

     was a depot ship for torpedo boat destroyers at Devonport
    HMNB Devonport
    Her 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...

    . She was the former , renamed HMS Tenedos in 1904. She was transferred to Chatham Dockyard
    Chatham Dockyard
    Chatham Dockyard, located on the River Medway and of which two-thirds is in Gillingham and one third in Chatham, Kent, England, came into existence at the time when, following the Reformation, relations with the Catholic countries of Europe had worsened, leading to a requirement for additional...

     in 1906 to become a training establishment. was an S class
    S class destroyer (1916)
    The S class were a class of 67 destroyers built from 1917 for the Royal Navy. The design was based on the Admiralty modified R class and all ships had names beginning with S or T....

     destroyer
    Destroyer
    In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast and maneuverable yet long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet, convoy or battle group and defend them against smaller, powerful, short-range attackers. Destroyers, originally called torpedo-boat destroyers in 1892, evolved from...

     launched in 1918 and sunk in 1942.

Training establishments

was a training establishment at Chatham for boy artificers. It was established in 1906 aboard the old HMS Triumph, but closed in 1910. A number of other ships were renamed HMS Tenedos whilst serving as homes for the establishment:
} was the original HMS Tenedos between 1906 and 1910.
} was HMS Tenedos II between 1905 and 1910.
} was HMS Tenedos III between 1906 and 1910.
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