Four ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Powerful.
Ships
HMS Powerful (1783) was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1783 and broken up in 1812.
HMS Powerful (1826) was an 84-gun second rate launched in 1826. She was used as a target from 1860 and was broken up by 1864.
HMS Powerful (1895) was a Powerful-class protected cruiser launched in 1895. She became a training ship in 1919 and was renamed HMS Impregnable, and was sold in 1929.
HMS Powerful (R95) was a Majestic-class aircraft carrier laid down in 1943 and launched in 1945. Work was suspended in 1946, but resumed in 1952 and sold to Canada. She was relaunched in 1956 and renamed HMCS Bonaventure. She was broken up in 1971.
Establishments
HMS Powerful II was a training establishment at Devonport aboard HMS Andromeda between 1913 and 1919.
HMS Powerful III was training establishment at Devonport aboard HMS Caroline between 1913 and 1919.
List of ships with the same or similar names
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have borne the name HMSPowerful. Ships HMSPowerful (1783) was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1783 and broken up in 1812. HMSPowerful (1826) was an 84-gun...
carrier was initially ordered for construction by Britain's Royal Navy as HMSPowerful during the Second World War. Following the end of the war, construction...
Powerful may refer to: HMSPowerful, four ship and two training establishments of the Royal Navy Powerful-class cruiser, a class of two Royal Navy protected...
carrier in service from 1957 to 1970; ordered by Royal Navy, but sold as HMSPowerful and delivered to Royal Canadian Navy; retired by the Canadian Armed Forces...
1911 and 1919. HMSPowerful was HMS Impregnable between 1919 and 1929. HMS Inconstant was HMS Impregnable II between 1911 and 1919, and HMS Impregnable (Old)...
ship, being renamed HMSPowerful II in 1913, HMS Impregnable II in 1919 and HMS Defiance in 1931. She was broken up in 1956. HMS Andromeda (1917) was...
United Kingdom. There are two carriers, HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales, currently in service. HMS Unicorn was an aircraft repair ship and...
The mutiny on the Royal Navy vessel HMS Bounty occurred in the South Pacific Ocean on 28 April 1789. Disaffected crewmen, led by acting-Lieutenant Fletcher...
the kopje. A Naval brigade consisting of sailors from the HMS Doris, HMS Terrible, HMSPowerful, as well as a battalion of Royal Marines, was present. As...
HMS Terrible (1845), wooden-hulled paddle frigate HMS Terrible (1895), a Powerful-class protected cruiser HMS Terrible (R93), aircraft carrier launched in 1944 and sold...
HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was ordered in 1758, laid down in 1759, and launched in 1765. With 246 years...
at Ladysmith urgently needed more powerful guns, Captain Percy Scott from the Powerful's sister ship, the cruiser HMS Terrible, devised carriages to transport...
privateer Bellone. HMSPowerful, assisted by Rattlesnake, captured her off Ceylon in the action of 9 July 1806. She was taken into service as HMS Bellona and...
After the Peace of Amiens, Plampin took command of the ship of the line HMSPowerful and operated successfully in the Atlantic and the Indian Ocean. In 1816...
– HMS Vengeance commissioned. 28 January – USS Antietam commissioned. 8 February – HMS Mars commissioned as HMS Pioneer. 27 February – HMSPowerful launched...
the Admiralty, in January 1845 and became captain of the second-rate HMSPowerful in the Mediterranean Fleet in January 1848. Promoted to rear-admiral...
RCN service by Bonaventure, another Royal Navy Majestic-class carrier (HMSPowerful) that had not been completed at the end of the war. She was returned...
acting commander of the 74-gun HMSPowerful, followed by command of HMS Cornwallis in 1808. He moved to the 38-gun HMS Phaeton in July 1808. He caused...
HMCS Bonaventure was a Majestic-class aircraft carrier, launched in 1945 as HMSPowerful, but not completed. She was sold to the Royal Canadian Navy in 1952 and...
HMS Hood (pennant number 51) was a battlecruiser of the Royal Navy (RN). Hood was the first of the planned four Admiral-class battlecruisers to be built...
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