HMS Princess Royal
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Five ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Princess Royal:
- HMS Princess Royal was a a 90-gun second rate launched in 1682 as HMS Ossory. She was renamed HMS Prince in 1705, HMS Princess in 1716 and HMS Princess Royal in 1728. She was broken up in 1773.
- HMS Princess Royal was a 24-gun storeship purchased in 1739 and sold in 1750.
- HMS Princess Royal was a 90-gun second-rate launched in 1773. She was rearmed to 98 guns in 1800, and then 74 guns in 1807, before being broken up in 1807.
- HMS Princess Royal was a 91-gun screw-propelled second-rate, originally to have been named HMS Prince Albert. She was launched in 1853 and sold in 1872.
- HMS Princess Royal was a Lion class battlecruiser launched in 1911 and sold in 1922.
[edit] See also
- HMS Princess
- Princess Royal, a British merchant ship captured by the Spanish at Nootka Sound.
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