HMS Bulwark

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Several ships of the British Royal Navy were or are named HMS Bulwark after the English word for bulwark .

  • Construction of the first HMS Bulwark began in 1780, but was discontinued at an early stage. The ship was never completed.
  • The second HMS Bulwark was a 3rd class ship of the line with 74 cannons, 1,940 ts and a crew of 590. Launched in Portsmouth in 1807, it was used during the Napoleonic Wars and the US War of 1812, and was scrapped in 1826.
  • The third HMS Bulwark was a two- decker steam-powered liner ship with 92 cannons, which gave the Bulwark class its name. Her keel was laid in 1859, but construction was stopped in 1861 at a very advanced stage and the ship was later scrapped.
  • The fourth HMS Bulwark was originally called HMS Howe . She was a first class ship of the line with 110 guns launched in 1860, but like the third Bulwark, due to the development of the Ironclads, it was already out of date when it was completed. In 1885 she was put into service as a training ship and renamed Bulwark . It was named Implacable in 1886, renamed Bulwark again in 1919 and sold for scrapping in 1921.
  • The fifth HMS Bulwark was a Formidable- class ship of the line that was launched in 1899. It was destroyed by an ammunition chamber explosion near Sheerness on November 26, 1914 , with only 12 of 750 crew members surviving. In 1908 the ship was under the command of the polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott .
  • The sixth HMS Bulwark (R08) was a light aircraft carrier of the Centaur class with 22,000 ts. It was launched in 1948, came u. a. used in the Suez crisis , decommissioned in 1981 and scrapped in 1984.
  • The seventh HMS Bulwark (L15) is an amphibious drop ship that was launched in 2002.

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. 52 .