HMS Vengeance

• was a 28-gun sixth rate captured from the French in 1758 and sunk as a breakwater in 1766.
• was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1774. She became a prison ship in 1808 and was broken up in 1816.
• was a Dutch hoy purchased in 1793 and sold in 1804.
• was a 38-gun fifth rate captured from the French in 1800; accounts differ as to whether she was broken up in 1803 after grounding in 1801, or continued as a prison ship until 1814.
• was a 84-gun second rate launched in 1824. She became a receiving ship in 1861 and was sold in 1897.
• was a Canopus-class battleship launched in 1899 and sold in 1921.
• was a Colossus-class aircraft carrier launched in 1944. She served with the Royal Australian Navy from 1952 to 1954, and was sold to Brazil in 1956 and renamed Minas Gerais.
• is a Vanguard-class nuclear ballistic missile submarine launched in 1998 and .

Battle honours

• Quiberon Bay 1759
• Martinique 1794
• St Lucia 1796
• Crimea 1854
• Dardanelles 1915

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