HMS Africa was a prison ship, launched in 1803 as the 36-gun fifth rateHMSEuryalus(1803). She became a prison ship in 1826, was renamed HMS Africa in 1859 and was sold in 1860.
HMSAfrica(1862) was a wooden-hulled screw sloop launched in 1862 and sold to China later that year. She was renamed China and was sold in 1865.
HMS Africa was to have been an Audacious-classaircraft carrier. She was ordered in 1943, but was later reordered as a Malta-class carrier, before being cancelled in 1945.
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