Editing HMS Ajax

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Eight ships of the [[Royal Navy]] have been named '''HMS ''Ajax''''' after the Greek hero [[Ajax the Great|Ajax]]:
* {{HMS|Ajax|1767}} was a 74-gun [[third-rate]] [[ship of the line]] launched in 1767 and sold in 1785.
* {{HMS|Ajax|1798}} was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1798. She fought at the [[Battle of Trafalgar]] in 1805 and was burned by accident in 1807.
* {{HMS|Ajax|1809}} was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1809. She was converted to screw propulsion in 1846 and broken up in 1864.
* HMS ''Ajax'' was a 78-gun third rate launched in 1835 as {{HMS|Vanguard|1835|6}}. She was renamed HMS ''Ajax'' in 1867 and was broken up in 1875.
* {{HMS|Ajax|1880}} was an {{sclass|Ajax|ironclad}} [[battleship]] launched in 1880 and sold in 1904.
* {{HMS|Ajax|1912}} was a {{sclass|King George V|battleship|0||1911}} battleship launched in 1912 and broken up in 1926.
* {{HMS|Ajax|22}} was a {{sclass|Leander|cruiser|0||1931}} [[light cruiser]] launched in 1934. She took part in the [[Battle of the River Plate]] and was broken up in 1949.
* {{HMS|Ajax|F114}} was a {{sclass|Leander|frigate}} launched in 1962 and broken up in 1988.
* {{HMS|Ajax|851F}} was an [[British Admiralty|Admiralty]] [[barge]] built in 1956. She was moored at Jupiter Point on the [[River Lynher|Lynher River]], [[Plymouth]] for seamanship training by {{HMS|Raleigh|shore establishment|6}} from 1987 to 2008.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hmsajax.org/#/training-barge/4565337515|title=HMS AJAX|website=www.hmsajax.org|access-date=2016-07-10}}</ref>

==Battle Honours==
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* [[Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1780)|St. Vincent]] 1780
* [[Battle of Saint Kitts|St Kitts]] 1782
* [[Battle of the Saintes|The Saints]] 1782
* [[French campaign in Egypt and Syria|Egypt]] 1801
* [[Battle of Trafalgar|Trafalgar]] 1805
* [[Siege of San Sebastián|San Sebastian]] 1813
* [[Crimean War|Baltic]] 1854–55
* [[Battle of Jutland|Jutland]] 1916
* [[Battle of the River Plate|River Plate]] 1939
* [[Mediterranean and Middle East theatre of World War II|Mediterranean]] 1940–41
* [[Battle of Cape Matapan|Matapan]] 1941
* [[Battle of Greece|Greece]] 1941
* [[Battle of Crete|Crete]] 1941
* [[Malta convoys|Malta Convoys]] 1941
* [[Aegean Sea|Aegean]] 1944
* [[Normandy landings|Normandy]] 1944
* [[Operation Dragoon|South France]] 1944
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==See also==
* {{ship||Ajax|ship}}

==Citations==
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==References==
* {{Cite Colledge2006}}

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