HMS Boadicea
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Various Royal Navy ships have been named HMS Boadicea after the queen of the Iceni in Roman Britain:
- Boadicea, a "heavy" frigate with 38 guns.
- Boadicea, a Bacchante class corvette, launched 16 October 1875 Sold 1905[1]
- Boadicea a Boadicea class cruiser of the First World War
- Boadicea (H65), a B class destroyer of the Second World War [2][3]
- Boadicea was considered as a name for HMS Coventry (F98)
Also the name of various shore establishments:
- Boadicea II - shore establistment and parent ship for First World War armed patrol trawlers at Kingstown, County Cork, relieved July 1915 by Amethyst III and moved to Holyhead.