HMS Northumberland
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Several warships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Northumberland after the English county.
- Northumberland, a 70-gun third-rate launched in 1679, fought in the War of the Grand Alliance. She was lost with all hands on the Goodwin Sands in the Great Storm of 1703. The wreck has been designated as a protected archaeological site under the Protection of Wrecks Act 1973 since 1981.
- Northumberland, a 70-gun third-rate launched in 1705, surrendered in 1744 to a French fleet during the War of the Austrian Succession.
- Northumberland, a 70-gun third-rate launched in 1743 and captured by the French Navy in 1744.
- Northumberland, a 70-gun third-rate launched in 1750, fought in the Seven Years' War. In 1777 she was converted to a storeship and renamed Leviathan. She foundered in 1780 whilst en route from Jamaica back to Great Britain.
- Northumberland, a 78-gun third-rate captured from the French Navy (where she had also been called Northumberland) at the Battle of the Glorious First of June in 1794 and broken up in November 1795.
- Northumberland, a 74-gun third-rate launched in 1798, fought in the Napoleonic Wars, including the Battle of Groix Island. She gained fame by conveying Napoleon from Plymouth to his exile on Saint Helena. She converted to a hulk in February 1827 and broken up in 1850.
- Northumberland, an ironclad, was launched in 1868, renamed Acheron on becoming a depot ship in 1908. She was converted to a hulk and renamed C8 the following year, and renamed C68 in 1926. Sold in June of the following year and resold as the hulk Stedmound.
- Northumberland, a 10,000 ton cruiser ordered from Devonport Dockyard on 15 May 1929 and cancelled on 1 January 1930.
- Northumberland, a type 23 frigate launched on 4 April 1992.
[edit] References
- J. J. Colledge, Ships of the Royal Navy, Greenhill Books, 1987.
