Three 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 ''Sans Pareil'', after the French meaning 'without equal':
* was an 80-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 ...
, formerly the
French ship ''Sans Pareil'' launched in 1793. She was captured in 1794 during the battle of the
Glorious First of June, hulked in 1810 and broken up in 1842.
* was a screw-driven 81-gun
second-rate ship of the line launched in 1851 and sold in 1867.
* was a
''Victoria''-class battleship
A battleship is a large armored warship with a main battery consisting of large caliber guns. It dominated naval warfare in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The term ''battleship'' came into use in the late 1880s to describe a type of ...
launched in 1887 and scrapped in 1907.
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Royal Navy ship names