Editing HMS Portland

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Eight ships of the [[Royal Navy]] have been named '''HMS ''Portland''''', either after [[Portland Harbour]] in [[Dorset]] or after holders of the title of the [[Earl of Portland|Duke of Portland]]:

* {{ship|English ship|Portland|1653}} was a 50-gun [[fourth rate]] launched at Wapping in 1653 and burnt to avoid capture in 1692.
* {{HMS|Portland|1693}} was a 48-gun fourth rate launched in 1693, rebuilt in 1723 and broken up in 1743.
* {{HMS|Portland|1744}} was a 50-gun fourth rate launched in 1744 and sold in 1763.
* {{HMS|Portland|1770}} was a 50-gun fourth rate launched in 1770.  She was converted to a 10-gun storeship in 1800 and a [[prison ship]] in 1802. She was sold in 1817.
* {{HMS|Portland|1795}} was a barge probably used to defend [[Plymouth]]. She was purchased in 1795 and was sold on 29 December 1799 for £155.<ref>Great Britain: Commissioners of Naval Enquiry (1803) ''The First (second-twelfth) Report of the Commissioners of Naval Enquiry, Appointed by Act 43 Geo. III. (Observations, by Way of Supplement, to the First Report of the Commissioners of Naval Enquiry, on the Memorial of the Principal Officers and Commissioners of His Majesty's Navy, in Answer to that Report.)'', p.116.</ref>
* {{HMS|Portland|1822}} was a 52-gun fourth rate launched in 1822. She was to have been named HMS ''Kingston'', but this was changed before launch in 1817.  She was sold in 1862.
* HMS ''Portland'' was to have been a {{sclass|Bangor|minesweeper}}. She was laid down in 1941 and renamed {{HMS|Taitam|J210|6}} later that year. The Japanese captured her in 1941 whilst she was under construction; she became the {{ship|Japanese minesweeper|M/S 101}}. The Americans sank her in 1945.
* {{HMS|Portland|F79}} is a [[Type 23 frigate]] launched in 1999 and currently in service.

==Battle honours==
Ships named ''Portland'' have earned the following [[Battle honour#Naval battle honours|battle honours]]:
*[[Battle of Scheveningen|Scheveningen 1653]]
*[[Battle of Lowestoft|Lowestoft 1665]]
*[[Four Days' Battle|Four Days' Battle 1666]]
*[[St. James's Day Battle|Orfordness 1666]]
*[[HMS Coventry (1695)|''Coventry'' 1709]]
*[[French ship Auguste (1741)|''Auguste'' 1746]]
*[[Second Battle of Cape Finisterre (1747)|Ushant 1747]]
*[[Action of 31 January 1748|''Magnanime'' 1748]]
*[[Battle of Lagos|Lagos 1759]]
*[[Battle of Quiberon Bay|Quiberon Bay 1759]]

==See also==
* {{HMS|Portland Prize}} was a 50-gun fourth rate, previously the {{ship|French ship|Auguste}}. She was captured in 1746 by {{HMS|Portland|1744|6}} and was sold in 1749.
* {{HMS|Portland Bill}} was a repair ship launched in 1945 and sold into civilian service in 1951, where she was renamed ''Zinnia''.
* {{USS|Portland}}

==Citations==
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