Editing HMS Vengeance

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Eight ships of the [[Royal Navy]] have been named '''HMS ''Vengeance'''''.
* {{HMS|Vengeance|1758}} was a 28-gun [[sixth rate]] captured from the French in 1758 and sunk as a [[breakwater (structure)|breakwater]] in 1766.
* {{HMS|Vengeance|1774}} was a 74-gun [[third rate]] launched in 1774. She became a [[prison ship]] in 1808 and was broken up in 1816.
* {{HMS|Vengeance|1793}} was a Dutch [[galliot]], possibly the ''Lady Augusta'', purchased in 1793 and sold in 1804.
* {{HMS|Vengeance|1800}} was a 38-gun [[fifth rate]] captured from the French in 1800; accounts differ as to whether she was broken up in 1803 after grounding in 1801, or continued as a prison ship until 1814.
* {{HMS|Vengeance|1824}} was an 84-gun [[second rate]] launched in 1824. She became a receiving ship in 1861 and was sold in 1897.
* {{HMS|Vengeance|1899}} was a {{sclass|Canopus|battleship}} launched in 1899 and sold in 1921.
* {{HMS|Vengeance|R71}} was a {{sclass|Colossus|aircraft carrier}} launched in 1944. She served with the [[Royal Australian Navy]] from 1952 to 1954, and was sold to Brazil in 1956 and renamed {{ship|Brazilian aircraft carrier|Minas Gerais||2}}.
* {{HMS|Vengeance|S31}} is a {{sclass|Vanguard|submarine|0}} nuclear [[ballistic missile submarine]] launched in 1998 and {{Ship in active service}}.

==Other British military vessels named ''Vengeance''==

* ''Vengeance'' was a gunboat that the garrison at Gibraltar launched in June 1782 during the [[Great Siege of Gibraltar]]. She was one of 12. Each was armed with an 18-pounder gun, and received a crew of 21 men drawn from Royal Navy vessels stationed at Gibraltar. {{HMS|Speedwell|1780|2}} provided ''Vengeance''{{'}}s crew.<ref>Drinkwater (1905), p.246.</ref>

==Battle honours==
Five [[battle honour]]s have been awarded to ships named HMS ''Vengeance''.<ref name=Festberg>{{cite book |last=Festberg |first=Alfred N. |title=Heraldry in the Royal Australian Navy |publisher=Silverleaf Publishing |location=Melbourne, VIC |year=1981 |pages=69–70 |isbn=9780949746009}}</ref>

* [[Battle of Quiberon Bay|Quiberon Bay]] 1759
* [[Battle of Martinique (1794)|Martinique]] 1794
* [[Battle of St Lucia|St Lucia]] 1796
* [[Crimean War|Crimea]] 1854
* [[Naval operations in the Dardanelles Campaign|Dardanelles]] 1915

==Citations==
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==References==
* [[John Drinkwater Bethune|Drinkwater, John]] (1905) ''A History of the Siege of Gibraltar, 1779-1783: With a Description and Account of that Garrison from the Earliest Times''. (J. Murray).


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