HMS Belleisle

Three ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Belleisle after Belle Île off the coast of Brittany:

• The first Belleisle was a French 74-gun third-rate ship of the line named Formidable captured in 1795 near Belle Île. She fought at the Battle of Trafalgar and was broken up in 1814.
• The second Belleisle was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1819 and broken up in 1872.
• The third Belleisle was the lead ship of her class of ironclad battleship, originally built for the Ottoman Empire as Peiki Shereef, but purchased in 1876, used as a coast defense ship and expended as a target ship in 1903.
• A destroyer named Belleisle was launched in 1946 but never completed.

See also

• HMS Belle Isle

References

• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475.