HMS Swiftsure

The Royal Navy has had ten ships named Swiftsure since 1573, including:

English ship Swiftsure (1573), a galleon, renamed Speedwell and rebuilt in 1607, and lost in 1624.
HMS Swiftsure (1621), a 42-gun great ship captured by the Dutch in 1666.
HMS Swiftsure (1637), a warship involved a colonial admiralty lawsuit.^[1]
HMS Swiftsure (1673), a 70-gun ship later renamed Revenge.
HMS Swiftsure (1750), a 70-gun third-rate ship of the line.
HMS Swiftsure (1787), a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line captured by the French in 1801. Later recaptured by the Royal Navy in the Battle of Trafalgar and renamed HMS Irresistible.
HMS Swiftsure (1804), a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line launched in 1804 which served at the Battle of Trafalgar and was sold in 1845.
HMS Swiftsure (1870), the lead ship of her class of ironclad battleships.
HMS Swiftsure (1903), the lead ship of her class of pre-dreadnought battleships. She served in the Mediterranean in World War I and was broken up in 1920.
HMS Swiftsure (08), a Minotaur-class light cruiser that served in the Far East in World War II.
HMS Swiftsure (S126), the lead ship of her class of submarines. She was decommissioned in 1992 due to damage suffered to the pressure hull during trials.

Battle honours

Armada 1588
Cadiz 1596
Santa Cruz 1657
Lowestoft 1665
Four Days' Battle 1666
Schooneveld 1673
Texel 1673
Barfleur 1692
Vigo 1702
Gibraltar 1704
Velez Malaga 1704
Lagos 1759
Quiberon Bay 1759
Belle Isle 1761
Nile 1798
Egypt 1801
Trafalgar 1805
Suez Canal 1915
Dardanelles 1915–16
Okinawa 1945

References

^ High Court of Admiralty: Instance and Prize Courts: Examinatons. N.p., 1637. Print. Library of Va websiteRetrieved 3 October 2023.

Weightman, A. E. (1957). Crests and Badges of H.M. Ships.

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