HMS Black Prince

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Five ships of the British Royal Navy were named HMS Black Prince . This goes back to Edward, the Black Prince (1330-1376), the eldest son of King Edward III. of England .

  • The first HMS Black Prince (1650) was a 10-gun ship that was acquired by royalists in March 1650 and burned by parliamentarians on November 4th of the same year.
  • The second HMS Black Prince (1816) , launched in 1816, was a third class ship that was in service as a prison ship until 1848 and was scrapped in 1855.
  • The third HMS Black Prince (1861) , launched in 1861, was the second Warrior- class warship . It was transferred to the reserve fleet in 1878 and converted into a training ship in 1896. It was renamed Emerald in 1903 and Impregnable III in 1910 . Eventually it was scrapped in 1923.
  • The fourth HMS Black Prince (1904) was a Duke of Edinburgh class armored cruiser . This was sunk with its entire crew during the Skagerrak Battle in 1916.
  • The fifth HMS Black Prince (1942) was a Dido- class anti-aircraft cruiser ( Bellona subclass ) that took part in many missions during World War II. After the war she was handed over to the Royal New Zealand Navy in 1946 and scrapped in 1962.

literature

  • JJ Colledge, Ben Warlow: Ships of the Royal Navy, The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy from the 15th Century to the Present . Chatham Publishing, London 2006, ISBN 1-86176-281-X , pp. 40 .