HMS President

Several warships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS President, according to the Office of the President ( Lord President of the Council).

• The first HMS President ( 1646) was a ship with 26 guns, which was purchased in 1646. After 1650 it was called Old President. In 1656 it was eliminated by sale from the Royal Navy, the further fate is unknown.
• The second HMS President (1650) was a ship with 41 cannons. She ran in 1650 from the stack, in 1660 renamed HMS Bonaventure, renewed in 1666 and scrapped in 1711.
• The third HMS President (1806 ) was a frigate with 38 cannons, originally the French Presidente. She was captured in 1806, renamed in 1815 in HMS piémontaise and even scrapped the same year.
• The fourth HMS President was a frigate with 44 cannons, originally the American frigate USS President. It was conquered in 1815 and scrapped because of her severe damage in 1817.
• The fifth HMS President (1829 ) was a frigate with 52 cannons. She ran in 1829 from the stack, served from 1862 as a training ship of the Royal Naval Reserve ( RNR ) and was sold in 1903.
• The sixth HMS President was originally named HMS Gannet and was a 1878 sloop, launched in the Osprey class. She was named in 1904, when it was passed as a training ship at the RNR. She kept him only until 1911, when it was handed over to a private Marine School and renamed TS Mercury. From 1914 to 1970 at the Hamble River and since 1987 at Chatham Historic Dockyard. HMS President on the Thames in London, 2008
• The seventh HMS President (1918 ) is a corvette Anchusa class. It was completed in 1918, was originally called HMS Saxifrage and is now in London on the River Thames on Victoria Embankment at anchor.

Not to be confused with the ships of this name is also bumpered named HMS President coast station of the Royal Naval Reserve ( RNR ) in London, close to Tower Bridge. This is not a ship, but a building that is one of the largest facilities of RNR in the UK with 370 officers and enlisted grades.