HMS Vengeance
Eight ships of the
Royal Navy
have been named
HMS
Vengeance
.
HMS
Vengeance
(1758)
was a 28-gun
sixth rate
captured from the French in 1758 and sunk as a
breakwater
in 1766.
HMS
Vengeance
(1774)
was a 74-gun
third rate
launched in 1774. She became a
prison ship
in 1808 and was broken up in 1816.
HMS
Vengeance
(1793)
was a Dutch
galliot
, possibly the
Lady Augusta
, purchased in 1793 and sold in 1804.
HMS
Vengeance
(1800)
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.
HMS
Vengeance
(1824)
was an 84-gun
second rate
launched in 1824. She became a receiving ship in 1861 and was sold in 1897.
HMS
Vengeance
(1899)
was a
Canopus
-class
battleship launched in 1899 and sold in 1921.
HMS
Vengeance
(R71)
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
.
HMS
Vengeance
(S31)
is a
Vanguard
-class
nuclear ballistic missile submarine launched in 1998 and in active service.