HMS Duke

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Seven Royal Navy ships and one short station have been called HMS Duke:

• Duke was a 12-gun ship in service in 1652
• Vanguard, was launched in November 1703 at Portsmouth and capsized in 1704. Salvaged and rebuilt at Chatham dockyard it re-entered service in 1710. Rebuilt in 1728, it was renamed HMS Duke and broken up in August 1769.
• Duke was a second rate 90 gun ship launched in 1682. Rebuilt in 1701 and renamed HMS Prince George. It was lost in 1758.
• Duke was an 8 gun fireship purchased in 1739 and expended at St Tropez on 16 June 1742.
• Duke was another 8 gun fireship captured from the French in 1845 and sold on 9 February 1748.
• Duke was a 10 gun storeship which foundered on 1 January 1761 off Pondicherry.
• Duke, 90, was a second rate launched on 18 October 1777 and relegated to harbour service in September 1799. Broken up in 1843.
• HMS Duke was the Royal Navy training establishment (c. 1940) in Malvern, Worcestershire on the site which became the Royal Radar Establishment.

[edit] See also

• HMS Duke of Edinburgh
• HMS Duke of Kent
• HMS Duke of Gloucester
• HMS Duke of Wellington
• HMS Duke of York
• HMS Duke William
• HMS Iron Duke

[edit] References

• Colledge, J. J. and Warlow, Ben (2006). Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy, Rev. ed., London: Chatham. ISBN 9781861762818. OCLC 67375475. 
• W. J. Stonebridge. HMS Whelp: Memories of a Young Stoker. Part 3. People's War (BBC website). Retrieved on 2007-11-11.