HMS Reliance
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Three ships of the Royal Navy
have born the name HMS Reliance, whilst a fourth was planned:
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 born the name HMS Reliance, whilst a fourth was planned:
- HMS RelianceHMS Reliance (1793)HMS Reliance was a discovery vessel of the Royal Navy. She became famous as one of the ships with the early explorations of the Australian coast and other the southern Pacific islands....
was a discovery vessel purchased in 1793. She became famous as one of the ships with the early explorations of the Australian coast and other the southern Pacific islands. She was used for harbour service from 1800 and was sold in 1815. - HMS Reliance was a 12-gun tender in service between 1812 and 1815.
- HMS Reliance was a repair ship, previously the civilian ship Knight Companion. She was purchased in 1912 and was sold in 1919.
- HMS Reliance was to have been a repair ship. She was launched in 1944 as the Liberty shipLiberty shipLiberty ships were cargo ships built in the United States during World War II. Though British in conception, they were adapted by the U.S. as they were cheap and quick to build, and came to symbolize U.S. wartime industrial output. Based on vessels ordered by Britain to replace ships torpedoed by...
SS Dutiful and it was intended that she would be transferred to the Royal Navy under the terms of Lend-LeaseLend-LeaseLend-Lease was the program under which the United States of America supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, China, Free France, and other Allied nations with materiel between 1941 and 1945. It was signed into law on March 11, 1941, a year and a half after the outbreak of war in Europe in...
. She was instead retained by the US Navy and commissioned into their service as the USS LaertesUSS Laertes (AR-20)USS Laertes was a Xanthus class repair ship in the service of the United States Navy from 1945 to 1972.-Construction and commissioning:...
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