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This is a list of ships of the Royal Navy The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against ... which have had names associated with saints. ''St'' * * * * * * * * * * * * * * HMS ''St Fermin'' * * * * * * * HMS ''St Jean d'Acre'' * * * * * * * * * * * * * HMS ''St Michael'' * * * * * * * * * ''San'' and ''Santa'' * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * See also * {{DEFAULTSORT:Saint, Hms ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against France. The modern Royal Navy traces its origins to the early 16th century; the oldest of the UK's armed services, it is consequently known as the Senior Service. From the middle decades of the 17th century, and through the 18th century, the Royal Navy vied with the Dutch Navy and later with the French Navy for maritime supremacy. From the mid 18th century, it was the world's most powerful navy until the Second World War. The Royal Navy played a key part in establishing and defending the British Empire, and four Imperial fortress colonies and a string of imperial bases and coaling stations secured the Royal Navy's ability to assert naval superiority globally. Owing to this historical prominence, it is common, even among non-Britons, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS St Fermin (1780)
''San Fermín'' was launched in 1779 and became an armed merchant corvette for the Gipuzkoan Trading Company of Caracas. The British captured her at the action of 8 January 1780 and took her into the Royal Navy as HMS ''St. Fermin''. The Spanish Navy recaptured her in 1781 and put her into service with the same name until she was decommissioned in 1785. History ''St Fermin'' was a 16-gun armed merchantman that belonged to the Royal Guipuzcoan Company of Caracas. On 8 January 1780 she was under the command of Captain J. Vin. Eloy Sanchez and was sailing with a merchant convoy of the company. A British fleet under Admiral Sir George Brydges Rodney intercepted the convoy at Cape Finisterre and captured it on 8 June. Rodney sent to Britain the vessels of the convoy that were carrying commercial goods, with the captured 64-gun ship ''Guipuzcoano'' providing the escort. Rodney took with him for the relief of Gibraltar those vessels that carried naval supplies, together with the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS St Jean D'Acre (1853)
HMS ''St Jean d'Acre'' was the Royal Navy's first 101 gun screw two-decker line-of-battle ship. She served in the Crimean War. Construction The ''St Jean d'Acre'' was a Surveyor's Department design. The design was approved on 15 February 1851, and she was ordered the same day. Her keel was laid down at Devonport Dockyard in June 1851, and she was launched on 23 March 1853. Her construction used materials collected for a 90 gun ''Albion'' class sailing two-decker line-of-battle ship to be called ''St Jean d'Acre'', which was ordered in 1844, but never laid down, and suspended in 1845. Her design was a stretched version of the ''James Watt'' 91 screw two-decker. She was a successful experiment. In service she was very highly regarded. The ''Conqueror'' was designed as a slightly elongated ''St Jean d'Acre'', and was laid down on the same slip at Devonport on 25 July 1853. Service ''St Jean d'Acre'' was commissioned at Plymouth by Captain Henry Keppel on 21 May 1853 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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