Six ships of the
Royal Navy have been named HMS ''Rodney'', of which at least the last five were named after the
Georgian
Georgian may refer to:
Common meanings
* Anything related to, or originating from Georgia (country)
** Georgians, an indigenous Caucasian ethnic group
** Georgian language, a Kartvelian language spoken by Georgians
**Georgian scripts, three scrip ...
Admiral
George, Lord Rodney. A seventh was planned but never completed:
* was a 4-gun
cutter
Cutter may refer to:
Tools
* Bolt cutter
* Box cutter, aka Stanley knife, a form of utility knife
* Cigar cutter
* Cookie cutter
* Glass cutter
* Meat cutter
* Milling cutter
* Paper cutter
* Side cutter
* Cutter, a type of hydraulic rescue to ...
in use in 1759.
* was a 16-gun vessel, possibly a
brig-sloop, purchased in 1780, probably in the Caribbean, and in service in 1781. The
French
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* Something of, from, or related to France
** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents
** French people, a nation and ethnic group identified with Franc ...
''Rohan-Soubise'' captured her in 1782 at
Demerara. In June 1783 she sailed for
St. Pierre and Miquelon
Saint Pierre and Miquelon (), officially the Territorial Collectivity of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon (french: link=no, Collectivité territoriale de Saint-Pierre et Miquelon ), is a self-governing territorial overseas collectivity of France in t ...
. She was struck from the lists at Rochefort in December, and from the Navy lists in 1784.
[Demerliac (1996), p.76, #488.]
* was a 74-gun
third rate launched in 1809,
razeed to 50 guns and renamed ''Greenwich'' in 1827, and sold in 1836.
* was a 90-gun
second rate launched in 1833, converted to screw propulsion and rearmed with 70 guns in 1860, and broken up in 1884.
* was an launched in 1884 and sold in 1909.
* was to have been an . She was ordered in April 1916, but construction was suspended in March 1917 and cancelled in October 1918.
* was a launched in 1925 and broken up in 1948.
Battle honours
*
Quebec 1759
*
Syria
Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...
1840
*
Crimea 1854–55
*
Norway 1940
*
Atlantic 1940–41
*
''Bismarck'' 1941
*
Malta Convoys 1941–42
*
North Africa 1942–43
*
Sicily 1943
*
Salerno
Salerno (, , ; nap, label= Salernitano, Saliernë, ) is an ancient city and ''comune'' in Campania (southwestern Italy) and is the capital of the namesake province, being the second largest city in the region by number of inhabitants, after ...
1943
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Mediterranean 1943
* English Channel 1944
*
Normandy 1944
*
Arctic 1944
Citations
References
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* Demerliac, Alain (1996) ''La Marine De Louis XVI: Nomenclature Des Navires Français De 1774 À 1792''. (Nice: Éditions OMEGA).
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