HMS Cambridge

Several ships of the British Royal Navy and a naval artillery school carried the name HMS Cambridge to the English university town of Cambridge:

• The first HMS Cambridge was a ship of the line 3rd class, with 70 guns, built in 1666, including to the naval battles in the Solebay ( 1672), in Bantry Bay ( 1689), at Beachy Head ( 1690) and Barfleur (1692 ) took part in 1694 and sank in a storm near Gibraltar.
• The second HMS Cambridge was a ship of the line 3rd class, with 80 cannons, which in 1744 at the Battle of Toulon, 1759 in an attack on Martinique and in 1762 took part in the capture of Havana. On her Fletcher Christian and William Bligh served two main actors of the Mutiny on the Bounty of 1789.
• The third HMS Cambridge was a ship of the line 3rd class, with 80 cannons, which made ​​1815 in service, used from 1858 as an artillery training ship and in 1868 / 69 was retired.
• The fourth HMS Cambridge was originally called HMS Windsor Castle and was a ship of the line of the first class with 100 guns and screw drive, which was put into service in 1858. As part of its transformation into an artillery training ship, the Windsor Castle in 1869 replaced the aforementioned Cambridge and received their names. She was decommissioned in 1908.
• Which emerged from the two artillery ships for naval artillery school of the Royal Navy, previously been labeled Cambridge Gunnery School, 1956 was named HMS Cambridge (although it was a means to the country). It was repealed in 2001.