HMS Fame

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A number of Royal Navy ships were named HMS Fame from the English word for fame :

  • Fame, known under the name "Fame von Watford", was a small ship that either joined the royalist fleet under Ruprecht von der Pfalz in the spring of 1649 or was confiscated by him. The Cromwell faction captured the ship in April / May 1649.
  • The first HMS Fame was a fifth class ship that was captured by the French in 1653/54. It was converted into a fire and used against the Dutch in June 1665 in this function.
  • The second HMS Fame was a small 10-gun ship that was captured by the Dutch in 1665.
  • As the name suggests, the HMS Fame Prize was again a prize , this time of French origin and English since 1709.
  • The third HMS Fame was a small 14-gun sloop that had been bought in Antigua in 1744 , but sank in the Atlantic Ocean in June of the following year .
  • The fourth HMS Fame was a 74-gun ship of the line of the 3rd class with a displacement of 1,565 tons. It was launched in 1759 and took part in the Battle of Grenada , the Battle of Les Saintes, and other skirmishes. George Vancouver served on her as a lieutenant .
  • The fifth HMS Fame (ex-Spanish Fama ) was a frigate with 34 cannons that had been captured on October 5, 1804 off Cádiz .
  • The sixth HMS Fame was again a ship of the line with 74 cannons that was launched in 1805, used in the coalition wars and scrapped in 1817.
  • A 16-gun ship of the British East India Company from 1804 also bore the name Fame . Strictly speaking, it should not be listed here, since it was not a Royal Navy ship; However, it is famous for the battle with the French frigate Piemontaise , in which it was taken as a prize in 1806 off the Malabar coast after strong resistance.
  • The sixth HMS Fame (ex-Danish Fama ) was an 18-gun brig , which was captured in August 1808 in the fighting around Nyborg , but was stranded in the Baltic Sea in December of the same year .
  • The seventh HMS Fame was launched in 1798 under the name HMS Dragon . After being renamed, it served as a residential ship in Pembroke until it was scrapped in 1850 .
  • The eighth HMS Fame was a screw sloop with 9 guns, the keel was laid in 1861.
  • The ninth HMS Fame was commanded by Roger Keyes during his exploration of the Chinese coast in 1899/1900 during the Boxer Rebellion . It was a 1896 at Thornycroft built torpedo boat destroyer of the D-class .
  • The tenth HMS Fame - launched in 1918 as a D-class destroyer .
  • The eleventh HMS Fame was an F-class destroyer ; it entered service in 1935 and took part in World War II . In 1949 he was sold to the Dominican Republic . He was there until 1968 under the name Generalissimo .

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