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 borne the name HMS ''Abercrombie'', after
General Sir Ralph Abercromby, but using the variant spelling of his name:
* was 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 ...
, previously the French . She was captured in 1809 and sold in 1817.
* was an
monitor
Monitor or monitor may refer to:
Places
* Monitor, Alberta
* Monitor, Indiana, town in the United States
* Monitor, Kentucky
* Monitor, Oregon, unincorporated community in the United States
* Monitor, Washington
* Monitor, Logan County, West ...
. She was originally planned as ''Farragut'', then renamed ''Admiral Farragut'', ''M1'' and ''General Abercrombie'', before being renamed HMS ''Abercrombie'' before her launch in 1915. She was sold in 1927.
* was a launched in 1942 and scrapped in 1954.
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Royal Navy ship names