HMS Caroline
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Eight ships of the Royal Navy
Royal Navy
The Royal Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Founded in the 16th century, it is the oldest service branch and is known as the Senior Service...

 have borne the name HMS Caroline:
  • HMS Caroline was a 3-gun gunvessel, formerly a barge, purchased in 1794. She was sold in 1802.
  • HMS Caroline was a 36-gun fifth rate launched in 1795 and broken up in 1815.
  • HMS Caroline was a 14-gun brig
    Brig
    A brig is a sailing vessel with two square-rigged masts. During the Age of Sail, brigs were seen as fast and manoeuvrable and were used as both naval warships and merchant vessels. They were especially popular in the 18th and early 19th centuries...

    , formerly the French ship Affronteur, captured in 1803 by HMS Doris
    HMS Doris (1795)
    HMS Doris was a 36-gun fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy, which saw service in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Doris was built by Cleveley, of Gravesend and was launched on 31 August 1795. She entered service in November 1795, operating as part of the Channel Fleet during the...

    , and broken up in 1806.
  • HMS Caroline was a schooner
    Schooner
    A schooner is a type of sailing vessel characterized by the use of fore-and-aft sails on two or more masts with the forward mast being no taller than the rear masts....

    , captured from the French in 1809 by HMS Halifax
    HMS Halifax (1806)
    HMS Halifax was a ship-rigged sloop of the Merlin class built in 1806 for the British Royal Navy at the Naval Yard in Halifax, Nova Scotia...

     and listed until 1814.
  • HMS Caroline was a wood screw gunboat
    Gunboat
    A gunboat is a naval watercraft designed for the express purpose of carrying one or more guns to bombard coastal targets, as opposed to those military craft designed for naval warfare, or for ferrying troops or supplies.-History:...

     of the Albacore class, launched in 1856 and broken up in 1862.
  • HMS Caroline was a sailing gunboat serving in New Zealand
    New Zealand
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     waters. She was purchased in 1859 and sold in 1863.
  • HMS Caroline was a Satellite-class
    Satellite class sloop
    The Satellite class was a class of 12-gun composite sloops built for the Royal Navy between 1883 and 1888, and reclassified as corvettes in 1884.-Design:...

     composite screw corvette launched in 1882. She was reassigned to harbour service in 1897 and then became a training ship and was renamed HMS Ganges
    HMS Ganges
    Two ships and a shore establishment of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Ganges after the river Ganges in India. was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line launched in 1782 and broken up in 1816. was an 84-gun second rate launched in 1821 and finally broken up in 1930. She is notable for being the...

     in 1908. She was renamed Powerful III
    HMS Powerful
    Four ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Powerful.Ships was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1783 and broken up in 1812. was an 84-gun second rate launched in 1826. She was used as a target from 1860 and was broken up by 1864. was a protected cruiser launched in 1895. She became a...

     in 1913 and Impregnable IV
    HMS Impregnable
    Two ships and two establishments of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Impregnable:-Ships: was a 98-gun second rate. This ship of the line was launched in 1786 and wrecked in 1799. was a 98-gun second-rate launched in 1810...

     in 1919. She was finally sold in 1929.
  • HMS Caroline
    HMS Caroline (1914)
    HMS Caroline was a C-class light cruiser of the British Royal Navy. Caroline was launched and commissioned in 1914. At the time of her decommissioning in 2011 she was the second-oldest ship in Royal Navy service, after HMS Victory...

     was a C-class
    C class cruiser
    The C class was a group of twenty-eight light cruisers of the Royal Navy, and were built in a sequence of seven classes known as the Caroline , Calliope , Cambrian , Centaur , Caledon , Ceres and Carlisle classes...

     light cruiser
    Light cruiser
    A light cruiser is a type of small- or medium-sized warship. The term is a shortening of the phrase "light armored cruiser", describing a small ship that carried armor in the same way as an armored cruiser: a protective belt and deck...

     launched in 1914, decommissioned in 2011 From the 1924 she served as the headquarters of the Northern Ireland division of Royal Naval Reserve
    Royal Naval Reserve
    The Royal Naval Reserve is the volunteer reserve force of the Royal Navy in the United Kingdom. The present Royal Naval Reserve was formed in 1958 by merging the original Royal Naval Reserve and the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve , a reserve of civilian volunteers founded in 1903...

    , until 2010 when the division moved ashore and recommissioned as .

See also

  • HMS Princess Caroline
    HMS Princess Caroline
    Four ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Princess Caroline or HMS Princess Carolina:*HMS Princess Caroline was an 80-gun second rate launched in 1697 as HMS Ranelagh...

  • Caroline affair
    Caroline affair
    The Caroline affair was a series of events beginning in 1837 that strained relations between the United States and Britain....

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