HMS Hampshire

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Six ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Hampshire after the English county:

• The first Hampshire was a 46-gun ship launched in 1653 and sunk in 1697 in action with the French ship Pelican in Hudson Bay during the War of the Grand Alliance.
• The second Hampshire was a 48-gun fourth-rate launched in 1698 and broken up in 1739.
• The third Hampshire was a 50-gun fourth-rate launched in 1741 and broken up in 1766.
• The fourth Hampshire, launched in 1903, was a Devonshire-class armoured cruiser. She served in World War I and was sunk by a mine on 5 June 1916.
• The fifth Hampshire (FY173), launched in 1934, was a trawler commissioned as an anti-submarine vessel in 1939. She was sold to the French Navy in 1939.
• The sixth Hampshire (D06), launched in 1963, was a County-class guided missile destroyer. She was scrapped in 1979.

[edit] References

• Colledge, J. J. and Warlow, Ben (2006). Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy, Rev. ed., London: Chatham. ISBN 9781861762818. OCLC 67375475.