HMS Akbar

Last updated October 30, 2021

Four ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Akbar, the Arabic word for Great. Two others were planned but never commissioned:

HMS Akbar was to have been a 74-gun third rate. She was laid down in 1807 but was cancelled in 1809.
HMS Akbar was a 54-gun fourth rate, the former East Indiaman Marquis Cornwallis, launched in 1801 and purchased in 1805. and renamed Cornwallis. She was renamed HMS Akbar in 1811 and used as a troopship. She was used for harbour service from 1824 and was sold in 1862.
HMS Akbar was a training ship launched in 1816 as the 74-gun third rate HMS Hero. She was renamed HMS Wellington in 1816 and Akbar in 1862. She was sold for breaking up in 1906.
HMS Akbar (1841) was a wooden paddle frigate launched in 1841 and sold in 1859.
HMS Akbar was an iron-hulled screw-propelled ship launched in 1876 as HMS Temeraire. She became a training ship in 1904 and was renamed HMS Indus II, and then HMS Akbar in 1915. She was sold in 1921.
HMS Akbar was to have been a Catherine-class minesweeper. She was launched in 1942 but retained for service with the US Navy.

This article includes a list of ships with the same or similar names. If an internal link for a specific ship led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ship article, if one exists.

Related Research Articles

Fifteen ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Enterprise while another was planned:

Ten ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Hermes, after Hermes, the messenger god of Greek mythology, while another was planned:

Eight ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Royal Oak, after the Royal Oak in which Charles II hid himself during his flight from the country in the English Civil War:

Seven ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Royal Sovereign, while another was planned but renamed before being launched:

Eight ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Centaur, after the half-human, half-horse centaur of Greek mythology:

Ten ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Triumph. Another was planned, but renamed before being launched:

Nine ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Grafton, while another one was planned:

Nine ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Conqueror, and another was planned:

Six ships and two shore establishments of the Royal Navy have been called HMS Temeraire. The name entered the navy with the capture of the first Temeraire from the French in 1759:

Four ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Bellerophon after the hero Bellerophon in Greek mythology, whilst another two were planned:

Six Royal Navy ships have been called HMS Hero:

Four ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Irresistible. A fifth was planned but later renamed:

Ten ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Berwick, after Berwick-upon-Tweed, a town on the border between England and Scotland:

Eight ships and a training establishment of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Worcester, after the English city of Worcester:

Five or six ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Cornwallis, after Admiral Sir William Cornwallis.

Four ships and three shore establishments of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Sultan.

HMS Wellington was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 21 September 1816 at Deptford Dockyard.

Eight ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Siren, Syren or Sirene, after the Sirens of Greek mythology:

Two ships and a shore establishment of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Boscawen, after Admiral Edward Boscawen, whilst another ship was planned:

At least three ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Wellington:

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.