HMS Pembroke

Nine ships and a number of shore establishments of the Royal Navy have been named HMS "Pembroke".

hips

* was a 28-gun ship launched in 1655 and lost in a collision off Portland in 1667.
* was a 32-gun fifth rate launched in 1690, captured by the French in 1694 and subsequently wrecked.
* was a 60-gun fourth-rate launched in 1694 and captured by the French in 1709. She was recaptured in 1711 but then foundered.
* was a 54-gun fourth rate launched in 1710 and broken up in 1726.
* was a 60-gun fourth rate launched in 1733. She foundered in 1745, but was raised and wrecked off the East Indies in 1749.
* was a 60-gun fourth rate launched in 1757, hulked in 1776 before being broken-up in 1793.
* was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1812. She was converted to a screw ship in 1855, transferred to the Coastguard in 1858, and used as a base ship from 1887. She was renamed HMS "Forte" as a receiving hulk in 1890, and was sold in 1905.
*HMS "Pembroke" was a 101-gun screw propelled first rate launched in 1859 as HMS|Duncan|1859|6. She was renamed HMS "Pembroke" on her transferral to harbour service in 1890, renamed HMS "Tenedos II" in 1905 and was sold in 1910.
*HMS|Pembroke|M107|6 is a "Sandown"-class minehunter launched in 1997 and currently in service.

hore establishments

*HMS|Pembroke|establishment|6 was the name given to a number of shore barracks at Chatham, Harwich and on the Forth. It was commissioned in 1878, moved ashore in 1903 and was paid off in 1983. A number of ships were renamed "Pembroke" while serving as base and depot ships for the establishment:
**HMS|Pembroke|1812|6 was the original base ship between 1873 and 1890.
**HMS|Duncan|1859|6 was HMS "Pembroke" from 1890 until 1905.
**HMS|Trent|1877|6 was HMS "Pembroke" from 1905 until 1917.
**HMS|Nymphe|1888|6 was HMS "Pembroke" from 1917 until 1920.
**HMS|Achilles|1863|6 was HMS "Pembroke" from 1919 until 1923.
**HMS|Prince Rupert|1915|6 was HMS "Pembroke" for several months in 1922.
**"Daniel Fearall" was HMS "Pembroke" between 1922 until 1939.
*There were a number of other "Pembroke"s established across the country during the twentieth century.
**HMS "Pembroke I" - accounting base at Chatham between 1940 and 1960.
**HMS "Pembroke II" - Royal Naval Air Station at Eastchurch between 1913 and 1918.
**HMS "Pembroke II" - accounting base at Chatham between 1940 and 1957.
**HMS "Pembroke III" - accounting base at London and outstations between 1942 and 1952.
**HMS "Pembroke IV" - accounting base at Chatham between 1919 and 1920, and the Nore between 1939 and 1961.
**HMS "Pembroke V" - naval base at Dover between 1919 and 1923, secret base at Bletchley Park between 1941 and 1942, and the name for WRNS personnel in London between 1945 and 1946.
**HMS "Pembroke VI" - accounting section at Chatham in 1919.
**HMS "Pembroke VII" - depot ship for auxiliary patrols at Grimsby between 1919 and 1921.
**HMS "Pembroke VIII" - naval base on the Humber between 1920 and 1921.
**HMS "Pembroke X" - headquarters of the Royal Navy Patrol Service at Lowestoft between 1939 and 1940.

ee also

*HMS|Pembroke Prize
*HMS|Pembroke Castle

References

*Colledge
*Warlow, Ben, "Shore Establishments of the Royal Navy", Liskeard : Maritime, 2000. ISBN 9780907771739