Nine 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 ...
have borne the name HMS ''Falmouth'', after the town of
Falmouth:
* was a 30-gun ship, formerly the Dutch ''Rotterdam''. She was captured in 1652 and sold in 1658.
* was a 58-gun fourth rate launched in 1693 and captured by French privateers in the Mediterranean in 1704.
* was a 50-gun fourth rate launched in 1708. She was reconstructed in 1729 and broken up in 1747.
* was a 50-gun fourth rate launched in 1752. She was beached and abandoned at Batavia on 16 January 1765 after suffering serious battle damage off Manila.
* was a
schooner launched in 1807. She was used as a dockyard vessel until 1824 when she was converted to a
mortar vessel. She reverted to a dockyard
lighter
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in 1846 and was renamed ''YC1''. She was renamed ''YC46'' in 1870, reverting to ''Falmouth'' in 1870, and was sold in 1883.
* was a 22-gun
sixth rate
In the rating system of the Royal Navy used to categorise sailing warships, a sixth-rate was the designation for small warships mounting between 20 and 28 carriage-mounted guns on a single deck, sometimes with smaller guns on the upper works a ...
launched in 1814 and sold in 1825.
* HMS ''Falmouth'' was to have been a wooden
screw sloop
A screw sloop is a propeller-driven sloop-of-war. In the 19th century, during the introduction of the steam engine, ships driven by propellers were differentiated from those driven by paddle-wheels by referring to the ship's ''screws'' (propelle ...
, ordered from
Deptford Dockyard
Deptford Dockyard was an important naval dockyard and base at Deptford on the River Thames, operated by the Royal Navy from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. It built and maintained warships for 350 years, and many significant events ...
in 1860 and cancelled in the same year.
* HMS ''Falmouth'' was to have been a wood screw
corvette laid down in 1861 at
Chatham Dockyard
Chatham Dockyard was a Royal Navy Dockyard located on the River Medway in Kent. Established in Chatham in the mid-16th century, the dockyard subsequently expanded into neighbouring Gillingham (at its most extensive, in the early 20th century ...
and cancelled in 1863.
* was a Town-class cruiser launched in 1910 and sunk in 1916.
* was a
sloop launched in 1932. She was renamed in January 1952 and was reassigned as a
drill ship. She was broken up in 1968.
* was a anti-submarine frigate launched in 1959. She was used as a training ship at Harwich from 1984 until 1988, when she was sold for scrapping.
Battle honours
Ships named ''Yarmouth'' have earned the following
battle honours
A battle honour is an award of a right by a government or sovereign to a military unit to emblazon the name of a battle or operation on its flags ("colours"), uniforms or other accessories where ornamentation is possible.
In European military t ...
:
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Kentish Knock 1652
*
Portland 1653
*
Gabbard 1653
*
Scheveningen 1653
*
Heligoland
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1914
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Jutland
Jutland ( da, Jylland ; german: Jütland ; ang, Ēota land ), known anciently as the Cimbric or Cimbrian Peninsula ( la, Cimbricus Chersonesus; da, den Kimbriske Halvø, links=no or ; german: Kimbrische Halbinsel, links=no), is a peninsula of ...
1916
*
East Indies
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1940
References
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Royal Navy ship names