HMS Windsor Castle explained

Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Windsor Castle, after Windsor Castle, an official residence of the British monarch:

• was a 90-gun second-rate ship of the line launched in 1678 and wrecked in 1693.
• HMS Windsor Castle was a 90-gun second rate previously named . She was launched in 1679, renamed HMS Princess Anne in 1701, HMS Windsor Castle in 1702 and HMS Blenheim in 1706, before being broken up in 1763.
• was a 98-gun second-rate ship of the line launched in 1790. She was reduced to 74 guns in 1814 and was broken up in 1839.
• HMS Windsor Castle was a 120-gun first rate. She was renamed a month after being launched as a screw-propelled ship in 1852.
• was laid down as a 116-gun first rate named HMS Victoria, but was renamed in 1855 before being launched in 1858. She had been converted to a 100-gun screw-propelled ship on the stocks, and was rearmed with 97 guns in 1862. She was renamed HMS Cambridge in 1869, when she replaced the 1815 vessel as a gunnery school ship. She was sold in 1908.
• was an ex-Russian merchant ship, seized in 1918 or 1919 and converted to an armed merchantman in the British Caspian Flotilla.

See also

• HMY Victoria and Albert, a wood paddle Royal yacht launched in 1855 was previously named Windsor Castle, but was renamed in 1854 before her launch.
  • Capture of the Jeune Richard, in which the UK Post Office's packet ship Windsor Castle captured the more heavily armed French privateer Jeune Richard in a notable single-ship action.
• Windsor Castle (disambiguation)