HMS Cambridge

HMS Cambridge

Five ships and a shore establishment of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS "Cambridge", after the English town of Cambridge or after the current Duke of Cambridge:

*HMS|Cambridge|1666|6 was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line launched in 1666 and wrecked in 1694.
*HMS|Cambridge|1695|6 was an 80-gun third rate ship of the line launched in 1695. She was rebuilt in 1715 and broken up in 1750.
*HMS|Cambridge|1755|6 was an 80-gun third rate ship of the line launched in 1755. She was on harbour service from 1793 and was broken up in 1808.
*HMS|Cambridge|1815|6 was a 80-gun second rate launched in 1815. She became a gunnery training ship in 1856 and was broken up in 1869.
*HMS "Cambridge" was a 116-gun first rate launched in 1858 as HMS|Windsor Castle|1858|6. She was renamed HMS "Cambridge" in 1869 when she replaced the 1815 vessel as gunnery ship off Plymouth. She was sold in 1908.
*HMS|Cambridge|1956|6, commissioned as a shore establishment between 1956 to 2001 (formerly named HM Gunnery School, Devonport, then Cambridge Gunnery School at Wembury).

ee also

*HMT "Cambridgeshire"


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