HMS ''Vindictive'' has been the name of several
Royal Navy
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ships
* was the six-gun
galley
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''Lee'' of the Georgia Navy that and captured on the Savannah River in April 1779. The Royal Navy took ''Lee'' into service as ''Vindictive'' and sold her at Jamaica in 1786.
* was the Dutch navy's frigate ''Bellona'' launched at Rotterdam in 1786 that the Royal Navy captured at the
Capitulation of Saldanha Bay
The Capitulation of Saldanha Bay was the surrender in 1796 to the British Royal Navy of a Dutch expeditionary force sent to recapture the Dutch Cape Colony. In 1794, early in the French Revolutionary Wars, the army of the French Republic overr ...
in 1796 and broke up in 1816.
* , a 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 ...
launched in 1813 and sold in 1871.
* , an
''Arrogant''-class cruiser used in the
Zeebrugge Raid
The Zeebrugge Raid ( nl, Aanval op de haven van Zeebrugge;
) on 23 April 1918, was an attempt by the Royal Navy to block the Belgian port of Bruges-Zeebrugge. The British intended to sink obsolete ships in the canal entrance, to prevent German ...
* , a
''Hawkins''-class cruiser built in 1918 and converted to an aircraft carrier
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Royal Navy ship names