Royal Naval Ships A-Z

HMS Abundance

Two ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Abundance:

HMS Abundance (1799) was a store-ship launched and purchased in 1799; she was sold in May 1823.
HMS Abundance (1855) was an iron-hulled screw-driven store-ship purchased in January 1855 as HMS Alfred, renamed HMS Abundance in February of that year and sold in 1856.

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HMS Carlisle

Three ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Carlisle, after Carlisle, Cumbria:

HMS Carlisle (1693) was a 60-gun fourth rate launched in 1693 and wrecked in 1696.
HMS Carlisle (1698) was a 48-gun fourth rate launched in 1698 and accidentally blown up in 1700.
HMS Carlisle (D67) was a C-class cruiser launched in 1918 and scrapped in 1949.

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HMS Discovery - there have been many!

HMHS Ebani.

HMHS Ebani was a hospital ship serving the Allied forces during World War I. Ebani was originally a cargo vessel owned by Elder Dempster, one of the United Kingdom's largest shipping companies. It was built in 1912 and was the second of its name. It had a tonnage of 4,862 tons. It was sold in 1938 to Italy and renamed the Maristella.

Been on board the Ebani [Elder Dempster line]that was built in 1952 and scrapped in 1977

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HMS Formidable

HMS Formidable was an Illustrious-class aircraft carrier ordered for the Royal Navy before the Second World War. After being completed in late 1940, she was briefly assigned to the Home Fleet before being transferred to the Mediterranean Fleet as a replacement for her crippled sister ship Illustrious.

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HMS Gibraltar, after the British overseas territory of Gibraltar.

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HMS Hermes.

HMS Hermes was a conventional British aircraft carrier and the last of the Centaur class.
Hermes was in service with the Royal Navy from 1959 until 1984, and she served as the flagship of the British forces during the 1982 Falklands War.

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HMS Integrity

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HNS Jessamine (1915).

H.M.S. Jessamine was one of twelve Azalea Class sweeping sloops completed for the Royal Navy.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Khartoum_(F45)

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HMS Loch Fyne.
HMS Loch Fyne was a Loch-class frigate of the British Royal Navy, built by the Burntisland Shipbuilding Company Ltd, Burntisland, Fife, Scotland, and named after Loch Fyne in Scotland.
The ship was launched in 1944, and served at the end of World War II.