Thirteen warships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Revenge: was a 46-gun galleon launched in 1577. She fought the Spanish Armada in 1588, and was captured by a Spanish fleet in 1591. She sank while being sailed back to Spain. was a 42-gun ship, previously a merchantman, purchased in 1650 by the Royalists. Her crew deserted to the Parliamentarians in 1652, bringing the ship with them. She was renamed Marmaduke, and was sunk in 1667 as a blockship. was a 58-gun third rate launched in 1654 as Newbury, during the Commonwealth. She was renamed Revenge at the Restoration, and was condemned in 1678. was 70-gun third rate launched in 1699, and renamed Buckingham in 1711 before being hulked in 1727. She was subsequently sunk as a foundation in 1745. HMS Revenge was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line launched in 1673 as , and renamed HMS Revenge in 1716. She was rebuilt three times and was sold in 1787. was a sloop commanded by Benjamin Norton for privateering in the British colonies. was a 14-gun brig-sloop in service in 1778 and captured by the Americans in 1779. was an 8-gun cutter purchased in 1796 and listed until 1798. was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1805 and broken up in 1849. was a 91-gun screw powered second rate launched in 1859. She was used as a base ship from 1872, became a training ship and was renamed Empress in 1891, and was sold for breaking up in 1923. was a launched in 1892. She was renamed in 1915 and was broken up in 1919. was a , laid down as HMS Renown, but renamed in 1913, prior to her launch in 1915. She was on harbour service from 1945 and was scrapped in 1948. was a launched in 1968 and laid up in 1995.
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was a 16, 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. 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. provided Revenges crew.
Battle honours
Ships named Revenge have earned the following battle honours:
Armada, 1588
Azores, 1591
Lowestoft, 1665
Four Days' Battle, 1666
Orfordness, 1666
Bugia, 1671
Schooneveld, 1673
Marbella, 1705
Orphee, 1758
Quiberon Bay, 1759
Trafalgar, 1805
Basque Roads, 1809
Belgian Coast, 1914−15
Jutland, 1916
Atlantic, 1939−41
English Channel, 1940
Citations
References
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).