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 F ...
have been named HMS ''Monarch''.
* , 74-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 ...
ship of the line
A ship of the line was a type of naval warship constructed during the Age of Sail from the 17th century to the mid-19th century. The ship of the line was designed for the naval tactic known as the line of battle, which depended on the two colu ...
, originally the French ''Monarque'', captured 1747 at the
second battle of Cape Finisterre
The second battle of Cape Finisterre was a naval encounter fought during the War of the Austrian Succession on 25 October 1747 (N.S.). A British fleet of fourteen ships of the line commanded by Rear-Admiral Edward Hawke intercepted a French c ...
, sold and broken up 1760. Admiral
John Byng was executed on board in 1757.
* , 74-gun third rate; Vice Admiral Onslow's flagship at the
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 ...
1797; broken up 1813.
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second rate, broken up 1866.
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ironclad
An ironclad is a steam engine, steam-propelled warship protected by Wrought iron, iron or steel iron armor, armor plates, constructed from 1859 to the early 1890s. The ironclad was developed as a result of the vulnerability of wooden warships ...
masted turret ship, sold and broken up 1905.
* , , served in
World War I
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...
, sunk as target 1925.
Battle honours
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St. Vincent 1780
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St. Kitts 1782
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The Saints 1782
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Cape of Good Hope 1795
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Camperdown 1797
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Copenhagen 1801
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Baltic 1854
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Alexandria 1882
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South Africa 1899-1900
The Second Boer War ( af, Tweede Vryheidsoorlog, , 11 October 189931 May 1902), also known as the Boer War, the Anglo–Boer War, or the South African War, was a conflict fought between the British Empire and the two Boer Republics (the South ...
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Jutland 1916
See also
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HMS ''Monarca''
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References
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Colledge, J. J. (1987) ''Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy from the fifteenth century to the present'', London: Greenhill,
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Royal Navy ship names