HMS Empress
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Four ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Empress:
- HMS Empress was previously the 91-gun screw powered second rate HMS Revenge. She was renamed HMS Empress in 1891, on her conversion to a training ship. She was sold in 1923.
- HMS Empress was a tender, transferred from the War Department in 1906. She was renamed HMS Heron later that year and was sold in 1923.
- HMS Empress was a seaplane carrier, originally launched as a merchant in 1906. She was requisitioned by the Navy between 1914 and 1919.
- HMS Empress was an escort aircraft carrier, originally the USS Carnegie. She was transferred to the Royal Navy in 1943, and returned to the US Navy in 1946.
[edit] See also
- HMS Empress Mary was a storeship purchased in 1799 and sunk in 1804 as a breakwater.
- HMS Empress of India was a Royal Sovereign class battleship launched in 1891 and sunk as a target in 1913.
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