HMS Tenedos explained
Four ships and a training establishment of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Tenedos, after the island of Tenedos:
Ships
- was a 38-gun fifth rate launched in 1812. She was used as a convict hulk from 1843 and was broken up in 1875.
- was a wooden screw sloop launched in 1870. She was rated as a corvette from 1875 and was sold in 1887.
- was a depot ship for torpedo boat destroyers at Devonport. She was the former, renamed HMS Tenedos in 1904. She was transferred to Chatham Dockyard in 1906 to become a training establishment.
- was an launched in 1918 and sunk in 1942.
Training establishments
- was a training establishment at Chatham for boy artificers. It was established in 1906 aboard the old HMS Triumph, but closed in 1910. A number of other ships were renamed HMS Tenedos whilst serving as homes for the establishment:
- was the original HMS Tenedos between 1906 and 1910.
- was HMS Tenedos II between 1905 and 1910.
- was HMS Tenedos III between 1906 and 1910.
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