HMS Belleisle
Three ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Belleisle after Belle Île off the coast of Brittany:
- HMS Belleisle (1795) 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.
- HMS Belleisle (1819) was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1819 and broken up in 1872.
- HMS Belleisle (1876) 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.
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