HMS Grenada

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Four ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Grenada (or Granada), after the island of Grenada:

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Citations and references

Citations

  1. ↑ Hepper (1994), p17.
  2. ↑ "No. 15990". The London Gazette . 10 January 1807. pp. 34–35.

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