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 ...
have borne the name HMS ''Nile'', after the
Battle of the Nile in 1798:
* was a 12-gun
cutter purchased in 1806. This may have been the former
hired armed cutter . HMS ''Nile'' was put up for sale in October 1810,
and sold, but the purchaser rejected her; she was subsequently broken up in 1811.
* was a 92-gun
second-rate
In the rating system of the Royal Navy used to categorise sailing warships, a second-rate was a ship of the line which by the start of the 18th century mounted 90 to 98 guns on three gun decks; earlier 17th-century second rates had fewer gun ...
ship of the line launched in 1839. She was converted to screw propulsion in 1854, renamed HMS ''Conway'' in 1876 whilst on loan as a training ship, and was burnt in 1956.
* was a launched in 1888 and sold in 1912.
In addition, the Royal Navy base at Ras el-Tin Point,
Alexandria
Alexandria ( or ; ar, ٱلْإِسْكَنْدَرِيَّةُ ; grc-gre, Αλεξάνδρεια, Alexándria) is the second largest city in Egypt, and the largest city on the Mediterranean coast. Founded in by Alexander the Great, Alexandri ...
,
Egypt
Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Medit ...
, which operated between April 1939 and June 1946, was officially referred to as HMS ''Nile''.
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Royal Navy ship names