Five 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 ''Exmouth'', after
Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth
Admiral Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, GCB (19 April 1757 – 23 January 1833) was a British naval officer. He fought during the American War of Independence, the French Revolutionary Wars, and the Napoleonic Wars. His younger brother I ...
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* was a 90-gun screw propelled
second-rate
In the rating system of the Royal Navy used to categorise sailing warships, a second-rate was a ship of the line which by the start of the 18th century mounted 90 to 98 guns on three gun decks; earlier 17th-century second rates had fewer gun ...
ship of the line launched in 1854. She was lent to the
Metropolitan Asylums as a
training ship
A training ship is a ship used to train students as sailors. The term is mostly used to describe ships employed by navies to train future officers. Essentially there are two types: those used for training at sea and old hulks used to house class ...
in 1877 and was broken up in 1905.
* was a launched in 1901, sold in 1920 and broken up in 1922.
* was a training ship launched in 1905. She was requisitioned as a depot ship between 1939 and 1945, before returning to being a training ship named
''Worcester''. She was broken up in 1978.
* was an
E-class destroyer launched in 1934 and sunk by a
U-boat
U-boats were naval submarines operated by Germany, particularly in the First and Second World Wars. Although at times they were efficient fleet weapons against enemy naval warships, they were most effectively used in an economic warfare ro ...
in 1940.
* was a launched in 1955 and broken up in 1979.
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Royal Navy ship names