HMS Fame

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Several ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Fame:

• Fame known as the “FAME” of Watford, was a small vessel which joined or was taken by the Royalist Fleet under Prince Rupert of the Rhine in the spring of 1649. She was captured by the Parliamentarians in April or May 1649.
• HMS Fame - fifth-rate taken from the French in 1653/54. She was of 208 tons and her dimensions were 68ft x 24ft x 12ft. She was fitted as a fireship in 1665 and burnt in service against the Dutch in June 1665.
• HMS Fame - Small prize taken during one of the Commonwealth fights with the Dutch in 1665. She was of 90 tons and mounted 10 guns.
• HMS Fame Prize - Small vessel taken from the French in 1709. She was of 316 tons and her dimensions were 106ft x 26ft x 11ft.
• HMS Fame - Purchased by Captain Warren at Antigua in 1744 as a small 14-gun sloop. She foundered in the Atlantic Ocean in July 1745.
• HMS Fame (1759) - 3rd rate 74-gun battleship of 1,565 tons, launched at Deptford. Her dimensions were 165ft x 47ft x 19ft. She took part in the Battle of Grenada, the Battle of the Saintes and other actions. George Vancouver served aboard her as a lieutenant.
• HMS Fame (ex-Spanish Fama) - 34-gun frigate, captured on 5 October 1804 off Cadiz by Medea and Lively. She was of 575 tons and carried a crew of 284. Her dimensions were 145ft x 39ft x 11ft.
• HMS Fame (1805) - 74-gun, 1745 ton battleship, launched at Deptford. She carried a crew of 590 and her dimensions were 175ft x 48ft x 18ft. In October 1808, commanded by Captain Richard Henry Alexander Bennett, she assisted in the defence of Fort Trinidad, a work to the east of Rosas, and held it against all attacks until she was relieved by Captain Lord Cochrane in Imperieuse. In 1817 she was broken up at Chatham.
• Fame - 16-gun East India Company’s ship, dating from 1804. Strictly speaking, it might be considered that this vessel should not be included in this record as she is not one of his Majesty’s ships, but she is put in on account of her gallant action. On 24 September 1806, off the Malabar coast, while commanded by Captain James Jameson, she was captured by the French 36-gun frigate Piemontaise after a most courageous resistance which cost the French 6 killed and 11 wounded. Her casualties were 1 killed and 6 wounded.
• HMS Fame (ex-Danish Fama) - 18-gun brig captured on 9 August 1808, while defending Nyborg, by the boats of Edgar. On 23 December 1808, while commanded by Lieutenant Charles Tappin, she was wrecked and lost in the Baltic Sea.
• HMS Fame (1798) - Formerly named Dragon, an 1815 ton ship launched on the Thames. Having had her name changed, she acted as barrack ship at Pembroke. Broken up in 1850.
• HMS Fame - 9-gun screw sloop of 669 tons, laid down at Deptford in 1861.
• HMS Fame (1896) - Twin-screw, 340 ton torpedo-boat destroyer, launched at Thornycroft’s yard. She was of 5700 horse-power and 30kts. Her dimensions were 211ft x 20ft x 7ft. She was famous as the ship of Roger Keyes during his daring exploits along the China coast in the 1899-1900 period.
• HMS Fame - D Class destroyer built in 1918, of 334 tons and with a top speed of 30 knots, armed with one 12-pounder gun and five 6-pounder guns along with two 18in torpedo-tubes. Crew of 60.
• HMS Fame - F class destroyer built by Parsons, Wallsend, River Tyne. Commissioned in 1935, saw action throughout World War II. Was decommissioned in 1949 and sold to the Dominican Republic and renamed Generalissimo.