Five Royal Navy ships have had the name of HMS ''Culloden'', after the

battle of Culloden The Battle of Culloden (; gd, Blàr Chùil Lodair) was the final confrontation of the Jacobite rising of 1745. On 16 April 1746, the Jacobite army of Charles Edward Stuart was decisively defeated by a British government force under Prince Wi ...

which took place in Scotland in 1746 and saw the defeat of the

Jacobite rising , war = , image = Prince James Francis Edward Stuart by Louis Gabriel Blanchet.jpg , image_size = 150px , caption = James Francis Edward Stuart, Jacobite claimant between 1701 and 1766 , active ...

. *HMS ''Culloden'' was renamed before her launch in 1747 to . * was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1747 and sold in 1770. * was a 2-gun storeship

hoy Hoy ( sco, Hoy; from Norse , meaning "high island") is an island in Orkney, Scotland, measuring – the second largest in the archipelago, after Mainland. A natural causeway, ''the Ayre'', links the island to the smaller South Walls; the two ...

launched in 1749 and sold in 1765. * was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1776 and wrecked in 1781 during the American Revolutionary War near

Long Island Long Island is a densely populated island in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of New York (state), New York, part of the New York metropolitan area. With over 8 million people, Long Island is the most populous island in the United Sta ...

. * was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1783. She participated in the

Battle of the Nile The Battle of the Nile (also known as the Battle of Aboukir Bay; french: Bataille d'Aboukir) was a major naval battle fought between the British Royal Navy and the Navy of the French Republic at Aboukir Bay on the Mediterranean coast off the ...

, where she ran aground. She was broken up in 1813.

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