Two 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 ...
have borne the name HMS ''Captivity''. In both cases they were old ships that had been renamed after their conversion to
prison ship
A prison ship, often more accurately described as a prison hulk, is a current or former seagoing vessel that has been modified to become a place of substantive detention for convicts, prisoners of war or civilian internees. While many nat ...
s:
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HMS ''Captivity'' was a former 64-gun
third rate
In the rating system of the Royal Navy, a third rate was a ship of the line which from the 1720s mounted between 64 and 80 guns, typically built with two gun decks (thus the related term two-decker). Years of experience proved that the third ...
launched in 1772 as . She became a prison ship and was renamed HMS ''Captivity'' in 1796. She was broken up in 1816.
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HMS ''Captivity'' was a former 74-gun third rate launched in 1786 as . She became a prison ship in 1815 and was renamed HMS ''Captivity'' in 1824. She was sold in 1836.
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Royal Navy ship names