HMS Windsor Castle

Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS "Windsor Castle", after Windsor Castle, an official residence of the British monarch:
*HMS "Windsor Castle" 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 HMS "Duchess". 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.
*HMS "Windsor Castle" 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 HMS "Duke of Wellington" a month after being launched as a screw propelled ship in 1852.
*HMS "Windsor Castle" 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.
*HMS "Windsor Castle" was an ex-Russian merchant ship, seized in 1918 or 1919 and converted to an armed merchantman.

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*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.
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