Several ships of the
Royal Navy have been named HMS ''Argyll'' after the region of
Argyll in
Scotland. Her motto is ''ne obliviscaris'' (lest we forget).
* , a 50-gun
fourth-rate ship of the line
A ship of the line was a type of naval warship constructed during the Age of Sail from the 17th century to the mid-19th century. The ship of the line was designed for the naval tactic known as the line of battle, which depended on the two colu ...
, launched in 1650 as the 38-gun ''President'', renamed HMS ''Bonaventure'' in 1660, rebuilt four times and renamed HMS ''Argyll'' in 1715. She was sunk in 1748 as a
breakwater
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Places
* Breakwater, Victoria, a suburb of Geelong, Victoria, Australia
* Breakwater Island
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.
* , a
armoured cruiser
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commissioned in 1905. She ran aground on the
Bell Rock at the head of the
Firths of
Forth
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* ''Forth'' (album), by The Verve, 2008
* ''Forth'', a 2011 album by Proto-Kaw
* Radio Forth, a group of independent local radio stations in Scotla ...
and
Tay
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* Tay people, an ethnic group of Vietnam
** Tày language
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in 1915.
* , a
Type 23 Duke-class
frigate
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commissioned in May 1991. She has been involved in a number of deployments, most successfully during the
Sierra Leonean Civil War in 2000 including
Operation Barras, and
Operation Telic
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IV in the
Persian Gulf from February–August 2005.
Battle honours
Ships named ''Argyll'' have earned the following
battle honours:
*
Passero, 1718
References
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Royal Navy ship names