en HMS Terrible

Eight vessels of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Terrible:

HMS Terrible (1694), 26-gun sixth rate captured by the Spanish near Cape Saint Vincent
HMS Terrible (1730), 14-gun bomb vessel
HMS Terrible (1747), 74-gun third rate captured from the French
HMS Terrible (1762), 74-gun third rate
HMS Terrible (1785), 74-gun third rate
HMS Terrible (1845), wooden-hulled paddle frigate
HMS Terrible (1895), a Powerful-class protected cruiser
HMS Terrible (R93), an aircraft carrier launched in 1944 and sold to Australia in 1947, where it was renamed HMAS Sydney

Other British military vessels named Terrible

Terrible 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. Porcupine provided Revenge's crew.^[1]

Citations

^ Drinkwater (1905), p.246.

References

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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[1] Drinkwater (1905), p.246.

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