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HMS Revenge

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Thirteen warships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Revenge:

Also

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  • HCS Revenge (1755) was a 16,[1] or 28-gun ship that the Bombay Dockyard launched in 1755 for the Bombay Marine, the naval arm of the British East India Company. Revenge foundered in 1782 off Bombay in a storm.[1][2]
  • Revenge was a gunboat that the garrison at Gibraltar launched in June 1782 during the Great Siege of Gibraltar. She was one of 12. Each was armed with an 18-pounder gun, and received a crew of 21 men drawn from Royal Navy vessels stationed at Gibraltar. Brilliant provided Revenge's crew.[3]

Battle honours

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Ships named Revenge have earned the following battle honours:

Citations

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  1. ^ a b Wadia (1986), p. 331.
  2. ^ Hackman (2001), p. 339.
  3. ^ Drinkwater (1905), p.246.

References

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  • Drinkwater, John (1905) A History of the Siege of Gibraltar, 1779-1783: With a Description and Account of that Garrison from the Earliest Times. (J. Murray).
  • Hackman, Rowan (2001). Ships of the East India Company. Gravesend, Kent: World Ship Society. ISBN 0-905617-96-7.
  • Wadia, R. A. (1986) [1957]. The Bombay Dockyard and the Wadia Master Builders. Bombay.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)