Four ships of the British

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 F ...

have been named HMS ''Glatton''. * The first was a 56-gun fourth rate, originally an

East Indiaman East Indiaman was a general name for any sailing ship operating under charter or licence to any of the East India trading companies of the major European trading powers of the 17th through the 19th centuries. The term is used to refer to vesse ...

purchased in 1795 and converted. Participated in the 1797

Battle of Camperdown The Battle of Camperdown (known in Dutch as the ''Zeeslag bij Kamperduin'') was a major naval action fought on 11 October 1797, between the British North Sea Fleet under Admiral Adam Duncan and a Batavian Navy (Dutch) fleet under Vice-Admiral ...

, and the 1801 Battle of Copenhagen. Converted to a water depot in 1814 and sunk as a

breakwater Breakwater may refer to: * Breakwater (structure), a structure for protecting a beach or harbour Places * Breakwater, Victoria, a suburb of Geelong, Victoria, Australia * Breakwater Island Breakwater Island () is a small island in the Palme ...

in 1830. * The second was an launched in 1855 and broken up in 1864. * The third was a turret ship launched in 1871 and sold 1903. * The fourth was a

coast defence ship Coastal defence ships (sometimes called coastal battleships or coast defence ships) were warships built for the purpose of coastal defence, mostly during the period from 1860 to 1920. They were small, often cruiser-sized warships that sacrif ...

, originally the Norwegian ''Bjørgvin'', purchased in 1915 and accidentally blown up in September 1918.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Glatton, Hms Royal Navy ship names