Thirteen warships of the

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have been named HMS ''Revenge'': * was a 46-gun

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launched in 1577. She fought the

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in 1588, and was captured by a Spanish fleet in 1591. She sank while being sailed back to Spain. * was a 42-gun ship, previously a merchantman, purchased in 1650 by the Royalists. Her crew deserted to the Parliamentarians in 1652, bringing the ship with them. She was renamed ''Marmaduke'', and was sunk in 1667 as a blockship. * was a 58-gun

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launched in 1654 as ''Newbury'', during the

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. She was renamed ''Revenge'' at the

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, and was condemned in 1678. * was 70-gun

launched in 1699, and renamed ''Buckingham'' in 1711 before being hulked in 1727. She was subsequently sunk as a foundation in 1745. * HMS ''Revenge'' was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line launched in 1673 as , and renamed HMS ''Revenge'' in 1716. She was rebuilt three times and was sold in 1787. * was a sloop commanded by Benjamin Norton for privateering in the British colonies. * was a 14-gun brig-sloop in service in 1778 and captured by the Americans in 1779. * was an 8-gun cutter purchased in 1796 and listed until 1798. * was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1805 and broken up in 1849. * was a 91-gun screw powered second rate launched in 1859. She was used as a base ship from 1872, became a

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and was renamed ''Empress'' in 1891, and was sold for breaking up in 1923. * was a launched in 1892. She was renamed in 1915 and was broken up in 1919. * was a , laid down as HMS ''Renown'', but renamed in 1913, prior to her launch in 1915. She was on harbour service from 1945 and was scrapped in 1948. * was a launched in 1968 and laid up in 1995.

Also

* was a 16, or 28-gun ship that the Bombay Dockyard launched in 1755 for the Bombay Marine, the naval arm of the British

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. ''Revenge'' foundered in 1782 off Bombay in a storm. *''Revenge'' was a gunboat that the garrison at Gibraltar launched in June 1782 during the

Great Siege of Gibraltar The Great Siege of Gibraltar was an unsuccessful attempt by Spain and France to capture Gibraltar from the British during the War of the American Revolution. It was the largest battle in the war by number of combatants. The American war had end ...

. She was one of 12. Each was armed with an 18-pounder gun, and received a crew of 21 men drawn from Royal Navy vessels stationed at Gibraltar. provided ''Revenge''s crew.Drinkwater (1905), p.246.

Battle honours

Ships named ''Revenge'' have earned the following

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: * Armada, 1588 *

Azores ) , motto =( en, "Rather die free than subjected in peace") , anthem= ( en, "Anthem of the Azores") , image_map=Locator_map_of_Azores_in_EU.svg , map_alt=Location of the Azores within the European Union , map_caption=Location of the Azores wi ...

, 1591 *

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, 1665 * Four Days' Battle, 1666 *

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, 1666 *Bugia, 1671 *

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, 1673 * Marbella, 1705 *''Orphee'', 1758 *

Quiberon Bay Quiberon Bay (french: Baie de Quiberon) is an area of sheltered water on the south coast of Brittany. The bay is in the Morbihan département. Geography The bay is roughly triangular in shape, open to the south with the Gulf of Morbihan to t ...

, 1759 *

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, 1805 *

Basque Roads Basque Roads, sometimes referred to as ''Aix Roads'', is a roadstead (a sheltered bay) on the Biscay shore of the Charente-Maritime département of France, bounded by the Île d'Oléron to the west and the Île de Ré to the north. The port of La ...

, 1809 *Belgian Coast, 1914−15 *

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, 1916 *

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, 1939−41 *English Channel, 1940

Citations and references

Citations References *Drinkwater, John (1905) ''A History of the Siege of Gibraltar, 1779-1783: With a Description and Account of that Garrison from the Earliest Times''. (J. Murray). * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Revenge, Hms Royal Navy ship names