HMS Suffolk
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Six ships of the Royal Navy
have borne the name HMS Suffolk, after the county of Suffolk
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was a 70-gun third rate launched in 1680, rebuilt in 1699, 1718 and 1739, and broken up in 1765. was a 30-gun storeship purchased in 1694 and sold in 1713. was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1765 and sold in 1803.
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 Suffolk, after the county of Suffolk
Suffolk
Suffolk is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in East Anglia, England. It has borders with Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south. The North Sea lies to the east...
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was a 70-gun third rate launched in 1680, rebuilt in 1699, 1718 and 1739, and broken up in 1765. was a 30-gun storeship purchased in 1694 and sold in 1713. was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1765 and sold in 1803.
- HMS SuffolkHMS Sultan (1775)HMS Sultan was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 23 December 1775 at Harwich.She was converted for use as a prison ship in 1797, and broken up in 1816....
was a prison shipPrison shipA prison ship, historically sometimes called a prison hulk, is a vessel used as a prison, often to hold convicts awaiting transportation to penal colonies. This practice was popular with the British government in the 18th and 19th centuries....
launched in 1775 as the 74-gun third rate . She became a prison ship in 1797, was renamed HMS Suffolk in 1805, and was sold in 1816. was a Monmouth classMonmouth class cruiserThe Monmouth-class was a ten-ship class of 10,000 ton armoured cruisers built around 1901 to 1903 for the Royal Navy and designed specifically for commerce protection...
armoured cruiser launched in 1903 and sold in 1920. was a County classCounty class cruiserThe County class was a class of heavy cruisers built for the British Royal Navy in the years between the First and Second World Wars. They were the first post-war cruiser construction for the Royal Navy and were designed within the limits of the Washington Naval Conference of 1922...
heavy cruiserHeavy cruiserThe heavy cruiser was a type of cruiser, a naval warship designed for long range, high speed and an armament of naval guns roughly 203mm calibre . The heavy cruiser can be seen as a lineage of ship design from 1915 until 1945, although the term 'heavy cruiser' only came into formal use in 1930...
launched in 1926 and sold for breaking up in 1948.
See also
- A fictional HMS Suffolk, played by the Type 23 frigateType 23 frigateThe Type 23 frigate is a class of frigate built for the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom. All the ships were first named after British Dukes, thus the class is also known as the Duke class. The first Type 23 was commissioned in 1989, and the sixteenth, was launched in May 2000 and commissioned in...
HMS GraftonHMS Grafton (F80)HMS Grafton was a Type 23 frigate of the Royal Navy. It was the ninth vessel to bear the name, and is named after the Duke of Grafton....
, appeared in the ITVITVITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...
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