Four ships of the British
Royal Navy 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
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in 1814 and sunk as a
breakwater 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, originally the
Norwegian ''Bjørgvin'', purchased in 1915 and accidentally blown up in September 1918.
References
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Royal Navy ship names