HMS Valorous
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HMS Valorous has been the name of four ship
s of the Royal Navy
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Ship
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s of the Royal Navy
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- HMS ValorousHMS Valorous (1804)The first HMS Valorous was a sixth-rate Combatant-class sloop of the Royal Navy. She was rated as "18 guns" but carried twenty 24-pounder carronades....
was a Combatant-class sixth rate sloopSloopA sloop is a sail boat with a fore-and-aft rig and a single mast farther forward than the mast of a cutter....
. She was launched at HullKingston upon HullKingston upon Hull , usually referred to as Hull, is a city and unitary authority area in the ceremonial county of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It stands on the River Hull at its junction with the Humber estuary, 25 miles inland from the North Sea. Hull has a resident population of...
in 1804, became an army depot ship in 1810, and was sold in 1817. - HMS Valorous was a Hermes-classHermes class post shipThe Hermes-class sailing sixth rates were a series of four 20-gun post ships built to an 1810 design based on the ex-French prize Bonne Citoyenne, which the British captured in 1796, and which served in the Royal Navy to the end of the Napoleonic War....
sixth rate sloopSloopA sloop is a sail boat with a fore-and-aft rig and a single mast farther forward than the mast of a cutter....
, launched at Pembroke Dockyard in WalesWalesWales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...
in 1816. She was broken up at ChathamChatham DockyardChatham 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 1829. - HMS ValorousHMS Valorous (1851)HMS Valorous was a 16 gun steam powered paddle wheel frigate of the Royal Navy built at Pembroke Dockyard and launched on 30 April 1851.-Design and Construction:...
was a 16-gun Magicienne-class paddle-frigateFrigateA frigate is any of several types of warship, the term having been used for ships of various sizes and roles over the last few centuries.In the 17th century, the term was used for any warship built for speed and maneuverability, the description often used being "frigate-built"...
. She was launched at Pembroke Dockyard in 1851 and broken up in 1891. She was commanded in 1878 by Captain John A. Fisher (later Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fisher). - HMS Valorous was an Admiralty V class destroyer leaderV and W class destroyerThe V and W class was an amalgam of six similar classes of destroyer built for the Royal Navy under the War Emergency Programme of the First World War and generally treated as one class...
built by William Denny and BrothersWilliam Denny and BrothersWilliam Denny and Brothers Limited, and often referred to simply as Denny, were a Scottish shipbuilding company.-History:The Company was founded by Peter Denny in 1840 and based in Dumbarton, on the River Clyde. Although the Denny yard was situated near the junction of the River Clyde and the River...
and launched in 1917. She was sold for scrapping in 1947.