Five ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Blenheim, after the Battle of Blenheim in 1704. The name was chosen for a sixth ship, but was not used.
HMS Blenheim was a 90-gun second rate launched in 1679 as HMS Duchess. She was renamed HMS Princess Anne in 1701, HMS Windsor Castle in 1702, and HMS Blenheim in 1706. She was broken up in 1763.
HMS Blenheim (1761) was a 90-gun second rate launched in 1761, reduced to a third rate in 1800 and wrecked in 1807.
HMS Blenheim was the name the Navy initially selected for the Danish HMS Christian VII, captured in 1807, but the name was not used.
HMS Blenheim (1813) was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1813. She was reduced to harbour service in 1831, converted to screw propulsion in 1847 and was broken up in 1865.
HMS Blenheim (1890) was a Blake-class armoured cruiser launched in 1890, used as a depot ship from 1907 and scrapped in 1926.
HMS Blenheim (F221) was a depot ship, previously SS Achilles. She was purchased in 1940 and scrapped in 1948.
List of ships with the same or similar names
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have been named HMSBlenheim, after the Battle of Blenheim in 1704. The name was chosen for a sixth ship, but was not used. HMSBlenheim was a 90-gun second...
New Zealand Blenheim Reef, part of the Chagos Archipelago Battle of Blenheim, a 1704 battle of the War of the Spanish Succession HMSBlenheim, several ships...
Morrison became a master gunner and was eventually lost in 1807 when HMSBlenheim foundered in the Indian Ocean. Muspratt is believed to have worked as...
HMS Bounty, also known as HM Armed Vessel Bounty, was a British merchant ship that the Royal Navy purchased in 1787 for a botanical mission. The ship...
British fleet from 31 March 1841 until his death on board his flagship, HMSBlenheim, in Hong Kong from fever contracted during the capture of Canton. Senhouse...
The Bristol Blenheim is a British light bomber designed and built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company, which was used extensively in the first two years of...
The Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the original on 4 June 2011. "HMSBlenheim (+1807)". Wreck Site. Retrieved 12 October 2013. "The Loss of the Waratah...
is unknown; the son, also called William, drowned off Madagascar in HMSBlenheim in February 1807. Caroline von Linsingen, whose father was a general...
died aboard the cruiser HMS Blonde stationed off the coast of Sierra Leone. His body was repatriated by the cruiser HMSBlenheim from the Canary Islands...
1679. She was renamed HMS Princess Anne in 1701, HMS Windsor Castle in 1702, and HMSBlenheim in 1706. She was broken up in 1763. HMS Duchess (1916), a paddle...
was claimed by his family and a salute of minute-guns was fired from HMSBlenheim in his honor. Guan Tianpei was born in 1781 in Shanyang county (now Huai'an...
1854 Baltic campaign in that role from his flagship HMSBlenheim. During the construction of HMS Exmouth he was appointed her commander, but this putative...
HMS Venerable HMS Vengeance HMS Zealandia HMS Inflexible HMS Bacchante HMSBlenheimHMS Cornwall HMS Dartmouth HMS Doris HMS Edgar HMS Endymion HMS Europa...
refit, she once broke free from her moorings and cut off the bowsprit of HMSBlenheim. She departed for New York in May 1861 (her other potential port, Baltimore...
Anne in 1701, HMS Windsor Castle in 1702 and HMSBlenheim in 1706, before being broken up in 1763. HMS Windsor Castle (1790) was a 98-gun second-rate...
under Captain J Brown. She was believed to have been condemned in 1855. Blenheim was a 375-ton barque built at Jarrow in 1834 and owned by Brown and Co...
vessels saved Bissell and his crew. Bissell died in 1807 when the 74-gun HMSBlenheim, of which he was then captain, foundered in the Indian Ocean. Bissell...
HMS Swiftsure. In September 1797, Phillip was transferred again to the 90-gun HMSBlenheim, command of which he held until December of that year. During 1798–99...
commanding officer of the cruiser HMS Leviathan in March 1908 and commanding officer of the cruiser HMSBlenheim in January 1909. He went on to be Captain...
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