HMS Princess Royal explained

Five ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Princess Royal:

• HMS Princess Royal (1728) was a 90-gun second rate launched in 1682 as . 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 (1739)^[1] was the former East Indiaman of the same name that the Navy purchased in 1739 and used first as a hospital ship and then as a 24-gun storeship, before selling her in 1750.
• 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.
• 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.
• was a launched in 1911 and sold in 1922.

Battle honours

Ships named Princess Royal have earned the following battle honours:

• Genoa, 1795
• Baltic, 1854
• Crimea, 1855
• Heligoland, 1914
• Dogger Bank, 1915
• Jutland, 1916

See also

• Princess Royal (ship)
  • Post Office Packet Service for an account of the packet Princess Royals successful resistance against a French privateer.

Notes and References

1. Web site: HMS Princess Royal (1739) (2nd) Storeship 24-gun on Britainsnavy.Org.Uk.