Four ships of the
Royal Navy have borne the name HMS ''Topaze'', after the French word for the
gemstone
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Topaz
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* , a 38-gun
fifth rate, previously the . She was handed over to the British in 1793 by
French royalists, and was sold in 1814.
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HMS ''Topaze'' (1814), a 38-gun fifth rate, previously the French frigate ''Étoile''. She was captured by
''Hebrus'' in 1814 and became a
receiving ship in 1823. She was used as a target from 1850 and broken up in 1851.
* , a wood screw
frigate
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The name frigate in the 17th to early 18th centuries was given to any full-rigged ship built for speed and ...
launched in 1858 and sold in 1884.
* , a launched in 1903, and sold in 1921.
There was also a
naval trawler named . She was formerly the trawler ''Melbourne'' launched in 1935, and used for anti-submarine training during the
Second World War, before she sank after a collision with in 1941. She does not seem to have been formally commissioned into the Royal Navy, and does not have the HMS prefix.
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Royal Navy ship names