HMS Belleisle
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Three ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Belleisle after Belle Île off the coast of Brittany:
- The first Belleisle was a French 74-gun third-rate ship of the line named Formidable captured in 1795 near Belle Île. She fought at the Battle of Trafalgar and was broken up in 1814.
- The second Belleisle was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1819 and broken up in 1872.
- The third Belleisle was the lead ship of her class of ironclad battleship, originally built for the Ottoman Empire as Peiki Shereef, but purchased in 1876, used as a coast defense ship and expended as a target ship in 1903.
- A destroyer named Belleisle was launched in 1946 but never completed.
[edit] See also
- HMS Belle Isle
[edit] References
- J. J. Colledge, Ships of the Royal Navy, Greenhill Books, 1987.
