HMS Majestic explained

Four ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Majestic, whilst another was planned:

• was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1785, razeed into a 56-gun fourth-rate frigate in 1814 and broken up in 1816 after a stranding.
• was a screw-propelled 80-gun second rate launched in 1853 and broken up in 1868.
• HMS Majestic was to have been a battleship. She was renamed Edinburgh two days before being launched in 1882, and was sold in 1910.
• was launched in 1895 and sunk by U-21 in 1915.
• was a launched in 1945. Work was suspended in 1946, she was later completed in 1955 and transferred to the Royal Australian Navy that year as . She was broken up in 1985.

See also

• , a First World War auxiliary minesweeper sunk in 1916