At least five ships and one
shore establishment
A stone frigate is a naval establishment on land.
"Stone frigate" is an informal term that has its origin in Britain's Royal Navy after its use of Diamond Rock, an island off Martinique, as a 'sloop of war' to harass the French in 1803–04. ...
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 been named HMS ''Warrior'':
* was a 74-gun third-rate
ship of the line launched in 1781. She became a
receiving ship
A hulk is a ship that is afloat, but incapable of going to sea. Hulk may be used to describe a ship that has been launched but not completed, an abandoned wreck or shell, or to refer to an old ship that has had its rigging or internal equipmen ...
after 1818, a
convict ship
A convict ship was any ship engaged on a voyage to carry convicted felons under sentence of penal transportation from their place of conviction to their place of exile.
Description
A convict ship, as used to convey convicts to the British coloni ...
after 1840, and was broken up in 1857.
* was the Royal Navy's first
ironclad ocean-going armoured battleship and world's first
iron
Iron () is a chemical element with Symbol (chemistry), symbol Fe (from la, Wikt:ferrum, ferrum) and atomic number 26. It is a metal that belongs to the first transition series and group 8 element, group 8 of the periodic table. It is, Abundanc ...
-hulled ironclad, and was launched in 1860. She became a
depot ship
A depot ship is an auxiliary ship used as a mobile or fixed base for submarines, destroyers, minesweepers, fast attack craft, landing craft, or other small ships with similarly limited space for maintenance equipment and crew dining, berthing and ...
in 1902, was renamed HMS ''Vernon III'' in 1904, and hulked as HMS ''Warrior'' in 1923. She was handed over for preservation as ''Warrior'' in 1979, and is preserved at Portsmouth as a
museum ship.
* was a
armoured cruiser launched in 1905. She was disabled at the
Battle of Jutland in 1916 and foundered a day later.
* was a
yacht
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requisitioned by the Royal Navy in 1917 and 1918
* was a light fleet
aircraft carrier
An aircraft carrier is a warship that serves as a seagoing airbase, equipped with a full-length flight deck and facilities for carrying, arming, deploying, and recovering aircraft. Typically, it is the capital ship of a fleet, as it allows a ...
launched in 1944, having had her name changed from HMS ''Brave'' in 1942. She was loaned to Canada from 1946 to 1948, as HMCS ''Warrior'', then sold to Argentina and renamed ARA ''Independencia'' in 1958.
*
HMS ''Warrior'' was the name assigned to the operational headquarters of the Royal Navy in Northwood, London from 1963. The base became the Joint Headquarters in 1996, before being decommissioned in 1999 to become the Joint Services Headquarters.
References
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External links
HMS Warrior (1860) History
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Royal Navy ship names