Six 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 F ...
have borne the name HMS ''Modeste'':
* was a 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 r ...
, previously the French ''Modeste''. She was captured in 1759, used for harbour service from 1778 and was broken up in 1800.
* was a 36-gun
fifth rate
In the rating system of the Royal Navy used to categorise sailing warships, a fifth rate was the second-smallest class of warships in a hierarchical system of six " ratings" based on size and firepower.
Rating
The rating system in the Royal N ...
, previously the French ''Modeste''. She was captured in 1793, used as a
floating battery
A floating battery is a kind of armed watercraft, often improvised or experimental, which carries heavy armament but has few other qualities as a warship.
History
Use of timber rafts loaded with cannon by Danish defenders of Copenhagen a ...
from 1804 and was broken up in August 1814.
*
HMS ''Modeste'' was a 38-gun fifth rate, previously the French ''Terpsichore''. She was captured in 1814 but never commissioned, and was broken up in 1816.
* was an 18-gun
sloop
A sloop is a sailboat with a single mast typically having only one headsail in front of the mast and one mainsail aft of (behind) the mast. Such an arrangement is called a fore-and-aft rig, and can be rigged as a Bermuda rig with triangular sa ...
launched in 1837 and sold in 1866.
* was a wooden screw
corvette
A corvette is a small warship. It is traditionally the smallest class of vessel considered to be a proper (or " rated") warship. The warship class above the corvette is that of the frigate, while the class below was historically that of the slo ...
launched in 1873 and sold in 1888.
* was a
modified ''Black Swan''-class sloop launched in 1944 and sold in 1961.
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Royal Navy ship names