HMS Alcide

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Three ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Alcide

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Thirteen warships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Revenge:

Seven ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Gibraltar, after the British overseas territory of Gibraltar.

There are eight ships of the British Royal Navy that have been named HMS Edgar.

Twelve ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Repulse:

Eleven ships and a shore establishment of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Medway, after the River Medway.

HMS Tartar has been the name of more than one ship of the British Royal Navy, and may refer to:

Twelve ships and two shore establishments of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Defiance. Others have borne the name whilst serving as depot ships and tenders to the establishments:

Thirteen ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Shark after the shark:

Twenty ships of the Royal Navy have been named Rose or HMS Rose after the rose:

Seven ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Mars, after Mars, the Roman god of war:

Nineteen ships and a shore establishment of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Drake after Sir Francis Drake or after the drake:

HMS Pegasus is the name which has been given to nine ships in the British Royal Navy. Pegasus was a winged horse in Greek mythology. These ships included:

HMS Vindictive has been the name of several Royal Navy ships

Six ships and a shore establishment of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Hannibal after the Carthaginian leader Hannibal:

HMS Alcide, the French and Italian version of "Alcides", another name for Heracles, was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 30 July 1779 at Deptford Dockyard.

Five ships and a shore establishment of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Cambridge, after the English town of Cambridge or after one of the Dukes of Cambridge:

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French ship <i>Alcide</i> (1742)

Alcide was a 64-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, launched in 1742. The captain of the vessel was Toussaint Hocquart, for the re-enforcement campaign that was sent to Canada in May 1755.

HMS <i>Dunkirk</i> (1754)

HMS Dunkirk was a 60-gun fourth-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Woolwich Dockyard to the draught specified by the 1745 Establishment as amended in 1750, and launched on 22 July 1754.

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