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词条 HMS Vengeance
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  1. Also

  2. Battle honours

  3. Citations and references

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Eight ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Vengeance.

  • {{HMS|Vengeance|1758}} was a 28-gun sixth rate captured from the French in 1758 and sunk as a breakwater in 1766.
  • {{HMS|Vengeance|1774}} was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1774. She became a prison ship in 1808 and was broken up in 1816.
  • {{HMS|Vengeance|1793}} was a Dutch galliot, possibly the Lady Augusta, purchased in 1793 and sold in 1804.
  • {{HMS|Vengeance|1800}} was a 38-gun fifth rate captured from the French in 1800; accounts differ as to whether she was broken up in 1803 after grounding in 1801, or continued as a prison ship until 1814.
  • {{HMS|Vengeance|1824}} was an 84-gun second rate launched in 1824. She became a receiving ship in 1861 and was sold in 1897.
  • {{HMS|Vengeance|1899}} was a Canopus-class battleship launched in 1899 and sold in 1921.
  • {{HMS|Vengeance|R71}} was a Colossus-class aircraft carrier launched in 1944. She served with the Royal Australian Navy from 1952 to 1954, and was sold to Brazil in 1956 and renamed Minas Gerais.
  • {{HMS|Vengeance|S31}} is a Vanguard-class nuclear ballistic missile submarine launched in 1998 and {{Ship in active service}}.

Also

  • Vengeance was a gunboat that the garrison at Gibraltar launched in June 1782 during the Great Siege of Gibraltar. She was one of 12. Each was armed with an 18-pounder gun, and received a crew of 21 men drawn from Royal Navy vessels stationed at Gibraltar. {{HMS|Speedwell|1780|2}} provided Vengeance{{'}}s crew.[1]

Battle honours

Five battle honours have been awarded to ships named HMS Vengeance.[2]

  • Quiberon Bay 1759
  • Martinique 1794
  • St Lucia 1796
  • Crimea 1854
  • Dardanelles 1915

Citations and references

Citations
1. ^Drinkwater (1905), p.246.
2. ^{{cite book |last=Festberg |first=Alfred N. |title=Heraldry in the Royal Australian Navy |publisher=Silverleaf Publishing |location=Melbourne, VIC |year=1981 |pages=69–70 |isbn=9780949746009}}
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  • Drinkwater, John (1905) A History of the Siege of Gibraltar, 1779-1783: With a Description and Account of that Garrison from the Earliest Times. (J. Murray).
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