Five 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 ''Champion'':
* was a 24-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 1779. She was reassigned to harbour service in 1810 and sold in 1816.
* was an 18-gun
sloop launched in 1824. She was reassigned to harbour service in 1859 and broken up in 1867 after being wrecked as a target.
* was a screw
corvette launched in 1878. She was reassigned to harbour service in 1904 and was renamed ''Champion (old)'' in 1915 to free the name for the next ''Champion'' under construction. She was sold in 1919.
* was a
light cruiser
A light cruiser is a type of small or medium-sized warship. The term is a shortening of the phrase "light armored cruiser", describing a small ship that carried armor in the same way as an armored cruiser: a protective belt and deck. Prior to th ...
launched in 1915. She served during the
First World War
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...
and was present at the
Battle of Jutland, before being sold in 1934.
* HMS ''Champion'' was a planned
destroyer, but was renamed prior to her launch in 1944.
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Royal Navy ship names